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Furl

//fɝl// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) transitive

    "With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales."

  2. 2
    form into a cylinder by rolling wordnet

Etymology

Perhaps from Old French ferlier, modern French ferler.

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