upcurl

English

Etymology

From up- + curl.

Verb

upcurl (third-person singular simple present upcurls, present participle upcurling, simple past and past participle upcurled)

  1. (transitive, rare) To curl up.
    • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “The Poet”, in Poems. [], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, [], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 48:
      Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world / Like one great garden show'd, / And thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, / Rare sunrise flow'd.

Translations

Noun

upcurl (plural upcurls)

  1. An upward curl.
    • 2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181:
      She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; []

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