curl

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She had all of the great traits of her breed and her ears were both the same size and had the same amount of curl, which is great for an American curl.

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  1. transitive verb To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils.
  2. transitive verb To form into a coiled or spiral shape: curled the ends of the ribbon.
  3. transitive verb To decorate with coiled or spiral shapes.
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  • The arm curl is a great exercise that targets your bicep muscle exclusively. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • For example when performing a bicep curl, after you have raised the dumbbells, control them on the way down as well. —  Diet Blog
  • "If your mom knows how to braid or curl, they can help you out," said Shelby Lutz, a junior from Fairfield High School. —  middletownjournal.com - News
  • Replace the cookie and URLs that I'm using with URLs for your app. curl -- silent -- head \ —  doggdot.us
  • Throw it in a bash while loop to hit the page a few times. while true; do curl -- silent -- head \ —  doggdot.us
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

hair ·  beard ·  braid ·  tress ·  eyebrow ·  lock ·  feather ·  mane ·  strand ·  ribbon ·  lace ·  brow

Used in the same contextWord Family

curl:   curling ·  curls ·  curled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English crullen, curlen, from crulle, curly, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.

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  1. First in Middle English as adjective, crull, crulle, crolle, from Middle Dutch krul, krol = Friesic krull, kroll, East Friesic krul = Middle High German krol, German dial. kroll, curled; the noun curl first in modern English; Dutch krul = German dial. kroll, kröll, krolle = Danish krölle = Swedish dial. krulla = Norwegian krull and kurle, a curl (later D., etc., krullig, curly); prob. from a Teutonic type *kruslo-; cf. Middle High German krūs, German kraus = Dutch kroes, etc., crisp, curled: see crouse.
  2. English dial. crule; from Middle English *crullen = Middle Dutch krollen, Dutch krullen = East Friesic krullen = German krollen = Danish krölle = Swedish dial. krulla, curl; from the noun.
 

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