AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for FURL
What is the meaning of FURL. Phrases containing FURL
See meanings and uses of FURL!
What is the meaning of FURL. Phrases containing FURL
See meanings and uses of FURL!FURL
FURL
FURL
FURL
FURL
FURL
Acronyms & AI meanings
Distributed Hardware Evolution Project
Visa Express Service
Space Command
Government of Peru
Urban Arterial Trust Account
Santa Clara Valley dudleya
Association of Business Managers in Victorian State Schools
Gatt Frendo Tufigno
Conseil des Gabonais de France
Transitional Services Inc
FURL
FURL
FURL
n.
A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
n.
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
a.
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
n.
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
v. t.
Same as Furl.
v. t.
To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
v. t.
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Furl
n.
In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
v. t.
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
imp. & p. p.
of Furl
n.
A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
v. t.
To furl; -- said of a sail.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Furlough
imp. & p. p.
of Furlough
a.
Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
v. t. & i.
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
n.
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
n.
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
v. t.
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
FURL
FURL