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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whirl \Whirl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whirled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Whirling}.] [OE. whirlen, probably from the Scand.; cf
Icel. & Sw hvirfla Dan. hvirvle akin to D. wervelen G.
wirbeln freq. of the verb seen in Icel. hverfa to turn.
[root]16. See {Wharf}, and cf {Warble}, {Whorl}.]
1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity;
to make to revolve.
He whirls his sword around without delay. --Dryden.
2. To remove or carry quickly with or as with a revolving
motion; to snatch; to harry. --Chaucer.
See see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That
whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood. --Milton.
The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into
folly. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whirling \Whirl"ing\,
a. & n. from {Whirl}, v. t.
{Whirling table}.
a (Physics) An apparatus provided with one or more
revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, and other
attachments, for illustrating the phenomena and laws of
centrifugal force, and the like
b A potter's wheel.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
whirling
adj 1: moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a
tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents" [syn: {swirling}]
2: rotating rapidly about an axis; "a spinning top"; "the
whirling dance of the Dervish" [syn: {spinning}]
n : the act of rotating in a circle or spiral [syn: {gyration}]
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