[f. CURL v. + -ER1.]
1. One who curls (hair, etc.); an appliance for curling the hair.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand. (1812), I. 58. You pitiful trencher-scraping pimping curler.
1882. Echo, 31 Jan., 4/5. Advt., Ostrich Feather Curler wanted.
1887. Sci. Amer., 9 July, 26/2. A hair or mustache curler has been patented.
2. A player at the game of curling.
1638. R. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1841–2), I. 163. He was a curler on the ice on the Sabbath day.
1785. Burns, Vision, i. The sun had clos’d the winter day, The curlers quat their roarin play.
1864. A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock, 115. The curlers of one quarter of the town would frequently challenge … those of another.
