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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity;
to make to revolve. |
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To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving
motion; to snatch; to harry. |
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To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity;
to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. |
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To move hastily or swiftly. |
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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. |
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Anything that moves with a whirling motion. |
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A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle
of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached. |
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A whorl. See Whorl. |
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