Whirl
- v. t. A whorl. See Whorl.
- v. t. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
- v. t. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
- v. i. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
- v. i. To move hastily or swiftly.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
- v. t. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.