| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  fûrl |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: furled, furl·ing, furls
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To roll up and secure (a flag or sail, for example) to something else. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To be or become rolled up. | | NOUN: | 1. The act or an instance of rolling up. 2. A single roll or a rolled section. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps from French ferler, from Old French ferlier, to fasten : ferm, firm; see firm1 + lier, to bind (from Latin lig re; see leig- in Appendix I).
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