Curling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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).
  • v. Present participle of curl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. The act of forming into curls; taking the form of curls.
  • n. Same as curl, n., 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.
  • n. The faulty detaching of cotton from the comb in a combing-machine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of hair having curls
  • n. a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
  • Equivalent
    curly    curling tong   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    game   
    Verb Stem
    curl   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sterling    Stirling    burling    gerling    herling    hurling    pearling    sperling    spurling    sterling