Read full poem →But a veiled woman followed, and she caught
The banner round its staff, to furl and cling,--
Then plucked a feather from the bearer's wing,
Dictionary Entry
To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
Origin
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Common Phrases
. furlsails furlfurl neat
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Poetry examples for “furl”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →THE furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
Read full poem →The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
Read full poem →For cold is his eye to mere beauty, who, breaking
The strong band which passion around him hath furl'd,
Disenchanted by habit, and newly awaking,
Read full poem →Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Read full poem →perceives a great storm of wind before it happens, and gives
order to furl the sail, and moreover sometimes to lower the
mast, and let go the cable, if he first restrain the perverse