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/kˈərlər/ Listen

noun

Curler n.

One who, or that which, curls.

A player at the game called curling.

A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers.

An electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce curls in the hair; called also curling iron.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curler" Quotes from Famous Books

... out at his study window in a moment of sublime thought. Gavin stepped into the dog- cart, which at once drove off in the direction of Rashie-bog, but equally in error were those who said that the doctor was making a curler of him. ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... of a curling-pin, was controlling the short fuzzy little hairs just at the nape of her neck; and this last wonder proved so absorbing a one that she remained, head bent and fingers aimlessly fiddling with the bars of the curler, till it suddenly occurred to her that she was getting ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... at last, capping every hill with snow, And freezing into icy plains the struggling streams below, You still may share the curler's joys, and find at even-tide, Maids sweet and fair, in spence and ha', ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... Winter muffles up his cloak, And binds the mire like a rock; When to the loughs the curler's flock [ponds] Wi' gleesome speed, Wha will they station at the cock? ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... boy can slide on one leg now—not a single shoe seems to have sparables. The florid style of skating shows that that fine art is degenerating; and we look in vain for the grand simplicity of the masters that spread-eagled in the age of its perfection. A change has come over the spirit of the curler's dream. They seem to our ears indeed to have "quat their roaring play." The cry of "swoop-swoop" is heard still—but a faint, feeble, and unimpassioned cry, compared with that which used, on the Mearns Brother-Loch, to make the welkin ring, and for a moment to ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson