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The Meaning of curl
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(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
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(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
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(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
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(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
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(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
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(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Synonyms
scroll
,
curlicue
,
bankroll
,
pealing
,
cast
,
helix
,
coil
,
paradiddle
,
rolling wave
,
drum roll
,
peal
,
ringlet butterfly
,
axial rotation
,
roll
,
volute
,
spiral
,
ringlet
,
roster
,
bowl
,
squiggle
,
lock
,
axial motion
,
whorl
,
gyre
,
rolling
,
roller
,
bun
,
ignition lock
,
lock chamber
,
wave
,
arc
,
curl up
,
sheer
,
slew
,
loop
,
twist
,
slue
,
frizz
,
arch
,
crimp
,
cut
,
swerve
,
wind
,
crape
,
trend
,
kink up
,
curve
,
kink
,
crook
,
frizzle
,
veer
,
draw in
,
retract
,
draw
,
move in
,
pull in
,
suck in
,
pull
,
get in
,
attract
,
close in
,
hand-build
,
handbuild
,
intertwine
,
gyrate
,
undulate
,
brandish
,
beckon
,
flap
,
flourish
,
change surface
Rhymes
berle
,
birle
,
burl
,
cowgirl
,
earl
,
earle
,
earll
,
erl
,
girl
,
hearl
,
herl
,
hurl
,
merl
,
merle
,
pearl
,
pearle
,
perl
,
perle
,
searl
,
searle
,
shirl
,
showgirl
,
sperle
,
swirl
,
twirl
,
unfurl
,
werle
,
whirl
,
whorl
,
wurl