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Webster 1913 Edition
Whirling
Whirl′ing
,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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Whirling
WHIRLING
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Definition 2024
whirling
whirling
English
Verb
whirling
- present participle of whirl
Noun
whirling (plural whirlings)
- The action of the verb to whirl.
Adjective
whirling
- That whirls or whirl.
- a whirling carousel; whirling dancers
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.