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

curl up

• Dutch: krullen (nl)

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'; […]

Anagrams

• curl up, curl-up