[f. next vb.]
1. A roll, coil, or curl of any furled body.
1643. Wither, Campo Musæ, 17.
| Or, since this Tempest rose, | |
| Hath taken down, one furle of his proud failes, | |
| That we the publike Vessell might not lose? |
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 171. Ye vernal clouds, furls of finer air, folds of softer moisture.
2. The action of furling or state of being furled, the manner in which a sail is furled.
1836. E. Howard, Rattlin, the Reefer, xxxii. That part of the sail … was wanted to be rolled in with the furl.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxiii. 70. Every sailor knows that a vessel is judged of, a good deal, by the furl of her sails.
