CURLER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Curler

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈərlər/ Listen

noun

Curler n.

One who, or that which, curls.

A player at the game called curling.

A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers.

An electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce curls in the hair; called also curling iron.

See images of 'Curler'

Etymology of 'Curler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Curler" Quotes from Famous Books

... every case on its own merits. I know what men are, though I've been content to gain my experience at my friends' expense. I tell ye I know more about the ins and outs of marriages than most married women, just as the curler on the bank sees most of the game. You mayn't have been anything worse than a fool, and ye mayn't have been ...

— The Black Cat - A Play in Three Acts • John Todhunter

... of triumph was on its way. When Jerry Morton came in the morning with a string of freshly caught fish, he produced from the depths of an over-worked pocket a folded paper, which, to judge from its worn and soiled appearance, had served as a hair-curler or in some equally trying capacity. This he handed to Peggy, who regarded it with ...

— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith