curled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb form a curl, curve, or kink
    curl; curve; kink.
    • the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
  2. verb shape one's body into a curl
    curl up; curl; draw in.
    • She curled farther down under the covers
    • She fell and drew in
  3. verb wind around something in coils or loops
    coil; curl; loop.
  4. verb twist or roll into coils or ringlets
    curl; wave.
    • curl my hair, please
  5. verb play the Scottish game of curling
    curl.
  6. adjective satellite of hair having curls
    curling.

WordNet


Curled adjective
Definitions
  1. Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). McElrath.

Webster 1913