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Whisk: Definition and part of speech

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Whisk

  1. n. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
  2. n. A game at cards; whist.
  3. n. The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
  4. n. A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
  5. n. A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
  6. n. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman’s dress.
  7. n. An impertinent fellow.

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.

Whirligig: Definition and part of speech

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Whirligig

  1. n. Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.
  2. n. A child’s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
  3. n. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.
  4. n. A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.

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.

Whirlpool: Definition and part of speech

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Whirlpool

  1. n. A sea monster of the whale kind.
  2. n. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.

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.