furled
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They packed up their chairs and furled banners, as the makeshift tent city slowly transformed back into a standard campus plaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
The baby’s tail or “fluke,” critical to swimming, was still furled from being compacted in utero.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023
There’s something called a buzz bud, a little furled blossom, on top.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Behind them, high-stepping drummers beat on the undersides of Hechinger buckets with Hechinger paint stirrers while others provide accompaniment with the zzzzzip sound of their Hechinger tape measures being unfurled and furled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2020
He unstepped the mast and furled the sail and tied it.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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