curling

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A game originating in Scotland in which two four-person teams slide heavy oblate stones toward the center of a circle at either end of a length of ice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A popular Scottish amusement on the ice, in which contending parties slide large smooth stones of a circular form from one mark to another, called the tee. The chief object of the player is to hurl his stone along the ice toward the tee with proper strength and precision; and on the skill displayed by the players in putting their own stones in favorable positions, or in driving rival stones out of favorable positions, depends the chief interest of the game.
2. n. The act of forming into curls; taking the form of curls.
3. n. Same as curl, n., 4 , *, *.
4. n. A process for giving a curl to the long nap on the face of some woolen fabrics. It is done by passing the fabric beneath a plate fitted with a brush which is given a rotating or otherwise curving motion.
5. n. The faulty detaching of cotton from the comb in a combing-machine.

Wiktionary

1. n. a winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
2. v. present participle of curl.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or state of that which curls; ; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
2. n. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of hair having curls
2. n. a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target