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upcurl en · NOUN
Etymology
From up- + curl.
Meanings
An upward curl.
She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […] 2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181:
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upcurl en · VERB
Etymology
From up- + curl.
Meanings
(rare, transitive) To curl up.
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. 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “The Poet”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 48: