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whirler|ˈhwɜːlə(r)|
[f. whirl v. + -er1.]
I. A person who whirls.
1. One who turns or spins rapidly round; † one who wanders about (obs.); a ‘whirling’ dervish.
c1440Promp. Parv. 524/2 Whyrlare a-bowte, or goare a-bowte in ydylnesse..; girovagus. 1815Tweddell's Rem. 229 plate, Dervish of the Order of Whirlers. 1832Ld. Jeffrey Let. to Mrs. Rutherfurd 1 Apr., The only chance is for one pair to cling close, like waltzers, and whirl lovingly among the whirlers. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. iii. (1850) 391/1 Sect of dancers and whirlers. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 101 He promenaded around the performers, and taking his place in the ring began to spin—for there were during the entire performance one or two whirlers at work.
2. One who whirls something; † one who hurls or flings something, a hurler (obs.); one who turns a wheel or other revolving piece of mechanism.
1563P. Whitehorne Onosandro Platon. 74 The whorlers of darts. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 466 For wash⁓bowls, dishes, or plates, the workman, called the whirler, uses a vertical spindle. 1889Lipscomb in Land Agent's Rec. 6 Apr. 316 When flails were whirling for six months..in the tithe barns, while the whirlers and their families ate barley bread.
II. A thing that whirls.
†3. ? A whirlwind. Obs. rare—1.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Magnificence 396 What boystrous lungs the roaring whirlers blown: What burning wings the Lightning rides upon.
4. A revolving piece of mechanism.
spec. a. A potter's whirling-table. b. An apparatus invented by Troughton to serve as an artificial horizon at sea, consisting of a rapidly rotating top with a mirror attached: also called Troughton's top. c. A device by which the strands are twisted together in spinning; in Rope-making, each of the rotating hooks by which the hemp or other fibre is twisted into yarn.
1860W. White Wrekin xxxi. 377 A revolving pedestal or ‘whirler’, on which the article to be ornamented is placed. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Whirler, or Troughton's Top. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1884Girl's Own Paper Nov. 4/3 The females busy with a bunch of camel's hair and a ‘whirler’, making..the coarse..thread with which much of their rough sewing is done. 1898Binns Story of Potter 198 The wheel..at which he [sc. potter] stands is called, when revolved by some other power than himself, a ‘jigger’; that which he turns with his own hand..is a ‘whirler’. 1918Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 8/5 Lithographic plate whirler. |