[kəːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- form or cause to form into a curved or spiral shape
(e.g: her fingers curled round the microphone)

- (in weight training) lift (a weight) using only the hands, wrists, and forearms
(e.g: slowly curl the barbell to shoulder height)

- play at the game of curling
(e.g: during the severe spell in 1740, men curled on the pond)


Phrases:
- make someone's hair curl

Origin:
late Middle English: from obsolete crulle ‘curly’, from Middle Dutch krul

[kəːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- something in the shape of a spiral or coil, especially a lock of hair
(e.g: her blonde hair was a mass of tangled curls)

- a weightlifting exercise involving movement of only the hands, wrists, and forearms
(e.g: a dumbbell curl)

- a function giving a measure of the rotation of a vector field


Phrases:
- make someone's hair curl

Origin:
late Middle English: from obsolete crulle ‘curly’, from Middle Dutch krul