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whirl
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Word definitions for whirl in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whirl \Whirl\, n. [Cf. Dan. hvirvel, Sw. hvirfvel, Icel. hvirfill the crown of the head, G. wirbel whirl, crown of the head, D. wervel. See Whirl , v. t.] A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "flywheel of a spindle," from whirl (v.). The meaning "act of whirling" is recorded from late 15c.; figurative sense of "confused activity" is recorded from 1550s. Colloquial sense of "tentative attempt" is attested from 1884, American English. ...
Usage examples of whirl.
He seized a fragment of nopal-stuff in his hand, in the hand of his analogue, whirled it up, beat at the sucker, at the fibril.
Biting off an oath, the fellow whirled to face Perrin, baring a good hand of his sword blade.
A movie camera whirled as the men dangled and strangled, their beltless trousers finally dropping off as they struggled, leaving them naked in their death agony.
The wind was moaning in the aerials and whirling the sand outside pretty briskly when they finally heard a long blat from seaward, and Mr.
In the night, long after the sun had gone and the last daylight could not possibly be there, the blizzard was whirling white.
And the town was all alone on the frozen, endless prairie, where snow drifted and winds howled and the whirling blizzard put out the stars and the sun.
Like lightning, Boots whirled his brother around and clamped him tightly in a hammerlock.
He pointed, and Dain whirled around just as another black-armored Believer charged straight at him with brandished sword.
Mules braying in the stables, and seabirds crying out as they whirled above us, but no words, nor did I really expect many.
Isabella, her dark hair whipping around her, whirled and swayed her body sensuously as she dance toward Burr, displaying every seductive curve of her body before his smiling gaze.
This had been painfully excogitated while the snowstorm whirled aboiut the lawn and filled the lanes, this was of the summer night, this of the harvest moon rising like a fire from the tithebarn on the hill.
A passenger hurrying from the expressway must inadvertently have kicked it in the direction of deceleration and now the owner was whirling away from her property.
As Fergus and I ducked under the creeper after Jamie, a large woman in homespun whirled toward us, shoulders hunching as she raised the broken tree limb she clutched in one hand.
She whirled about on the lawn like a dervish, hooting and screeching, her pink mouth open.
Above them, like a broken umbrella in a high wind, the daddy longlegs whirled off, looking for a dark place to hide.