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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Twirl  \Twirl\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Twirled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Twirling}.]  [Cf.  AS  [thorn]wiril  a  churn  staff,  a  stirrer, 
  flail,  [thorn]weran,  [=a][thorn]weran,  to  agitate,  twirl,  G. 
  zwirlen  quirlen  to  twirl,  to  turn  round  or  about  quirl  a 
  twirling  stick,  OHG.  dweran  to  twirl,  stir.  Cf  {Trowel}.] 
  To  move  or  turn  round  rapidly;  to  whirl  round;  to  move  and 
  turn  rapidly  with  the  fingers. 
 
  See  ruddy  maids,  Some  taught  with  dexterous  hand  to 
  twirl  the  wheel.  --Dodsley. 
 
  No  more  beneath  soft  eve's  consenting  star  Fandango 
  twirls  his  jocund  castanet.  --Byron. 




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