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'curl' - used as a noun
1. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
2. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
3. a strand or cluster of hair

'curl' - used as a verb
4. form a curl, curve, or kink
the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
5. shape one's body into a curl
She curled farther down under the covers
6. wind around something in coils or loops
7. twist or roll into coils or ringlets
curl my hair, please
8. play the Scottish game of curling

derived forms
1. Curl / Plural
curls
2. Curl / Past
curled
3. Curl / Third Person
curls
4. Curl / Present Participle
curling
Variations of 'curl'
 
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    A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it.