Crossword clues for whirling
whirling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
He whirls his sword around without delay.
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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.
Whirling \Whirl"ing\, a. & n. from Whirl, v. t. Whirling table.
(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.
A potter's wheel.
Wiktionary
That whirls or whirl. n. The action of the verb to '''whirl'''. v
(present participle of whirl English)
WordNet
n. the act of rotating in a circle or spiral [syn: gyration]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "whirling".
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.
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.
For a time he half believed they had never been there at all, yet he had captured them, tucked them away into whirling little memory spheres and sent them on to the Office of Canon, with copies duly dispatched to the squat, cool fortress that housed the Monody of Science.
Ranging harmonics pealed forth and mustered the wind, which arose into whirling gyration.
Trix stared at its immensity and felt a nauseating vertigo, like she might overtopple and plunge into the giant bands of whirling cloud.
The smile came to him, but much more: an electrical, crackling, pandemoniacal, whirling shadow show of images and impressions.
Ignoring the laughter, eyes snakelike, arms whirling in particoloured costume, they sent blunt-edged daggers in a stream to each other, their hands a pink blur in the slipstream of silver.
Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham, Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair.
Soon after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, and Passepartout, installed in a carriage with Aouda, who had the best seat, were whirling at full speed towards Benares.
Like an airborne mote within the eerily lit bowels of that colossal imaginary mechanism, he drifted past massive walls and interconnected columns of whirling drive shafts, rattling drive chains, myriad thrusting piston rods joined by sliding blocks to connecting rods that were in turn joined by crank wrists to well-greased cranks that turned flywheels of all dimensions.
The prows and sails of the quadriremes blurred, dissolved to ghost-ships, as the air was filled with whirling rock.
I caught a glimpse of the quagma object whirling away from the pod and neatly returning to its orbit.
Her mind whirling like a Sharan dervish, she followed Chase into the cockpit.