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Curling   /kˈərlɪŋ/   Listen
Curling

noun
1.
A game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target.
adjective
1.
Of hair having curls.  Synonym: curled.


Curl

verb
(past & past part. curled; pres. part. curling)
1.
Form a curl, curve, or kink.  Synonyms: curve, kink.
2.
Shape one's body into a curl.  Synonyms: curl up, draw in.  "She fell and drew in"
3.
Wind around something in coils or loops.  Synonyms: coil, loop.
4.
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets.  Synonym: wave.
5.
Play the Scottish game of curling.



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"Curling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Up came the Guard, every man of them Six Foot high, and for all they were Sauerkraut Soldiers, pestilent Veterans who knew what Fighting meant. When I saw their fixed Bayonets, and their Mustachios curling with rage, I remembered a certain Scar I had left on me after a memorable night in Charlwood Chase. We were far from our own country, and there was no Demijohn of Brandy by; so, though it went sore against my Stomach, there was no help ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala
... few minutes looking round, with the portion of the island or peninsula they had left cut off now by the forest which rose right behind them like a huge green ridge of verdure. Then, full of excitement, they began to advance through the low bushes toward the long line of white vapour slowly curling like a bank of clouds, for the one desire now among all was to stand face to face with the mountain which had partially burned up the face ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... even tenor of its way, and was as unmindful of the disaster, which was so suddenly to befall it, as the people of Pompeii were on the morning of the great eruption when they thronged the theatre in the pursuit of pleasure and disregarded the ominous curling of the smoke ...
— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck
... a darling—a six-months' old beauty with little golden ringlets curling and glistening all over its tiny head. As Miss Rosetta hung over it, it opened its eyes and then held out its tiny hands to her with a ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... world enchantress! may we ever be devoted to thee! Your vehicles, the huka, the pipe, let them ever remain before us. At the mere sight of them we shall obtain heavenly delight. Oh, huka! thou that sendest forth volumes of curling smoke, that hast a winding tube shaming the serpent! oh, bowl that beautifies thy top! how graceful are the chains of thy turban; how great is the beauty of thy curved mouthpiece; how sonorous the murmur of the ice-cool water in ...
— The Poison Tree - A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee


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