英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fɜːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɝl/
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)l

動詞

furl (三人称単数 現在形 furls, 現在分詞 furling, 過去形および過去分詞形 furled)

1. (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail または flag)
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 71:

     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.

   • 1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man‎^[1]:

     When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 191:

     "'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."

反意語

• unfurl