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- English Word Whirl Definition To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
- English Word Whirl Definition To move hastily or swiftly.
- English Word Whirl Definition A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
- English Word Whirl Definition Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
- English Word Whirl Definition A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
- English Word Whirl Definition A whorl. See Whorl.
- English Word Whirl-blast Definition A whirling blast or wind.
- English Word Whirlabout Definition Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
- English Word Whirlbat Definition Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
- English Word Whirlbone Definition The huckle bone.
- English Word Whirlbone Definition The patella, or kneepan.
- English Word Whirled Definition of Whirl
- English Word Whirler Definition One who, or that which, whirls.
- English Word Whirlicote Definition An open car or chariot.
- English Word Whirligig Definition A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
- English Word Whirligig Definition Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.
- English Word Whirligig Definition A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
- English Word Whirligig Definition Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.
- English Word Whirling Definition of Whirl
- English Word Whirling Definition a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.
- English Word Whirlpit Definition A whirlpool.
- English Word Whirlpool Definition An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
- English Word Whirlpool Definition A sea monster of the whale kind.
- English Word Whirlwig Definition A whirligig.
- English Word Whirlwind Definition A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
- English Word Whirlwind Definition Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
- English Word Whirred Definition of Whir
- English Word Whirring Definition of Whir
- English Word Whirry Definition To whir.
- English Word Whirtle Definition A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.