A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. / A curved stroke or shape. / A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. / (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.

(transitive) To cause to move in a curve. / (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral. / (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral. / (intransitive) To move in curves.

(historical) Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome / (historical) The Roman senate during the republic / (historical) Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice

Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. / (Australia) A stone curlew.

A bun containing currants. / (Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (celestial body). / (Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (British newspaper).

An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions. / (archaic) A miser.

(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)

(transitive) To check, restrain or control. / (transitive) To rein in. / (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

(idiomatic, Britain) On the Isle of Man, the common or general man. / (idiomatic, US) A way to designate special coins, namely coins that are both odd and imperfect or seriously damaged.

Any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.