a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 827 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 The barde..Socht watter to wesche him yair out in ane ydy.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 175 Such as..escaped there enemies, were..drowned with..the Iddyes of the streame.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 251 The strong eddy or Whirlepoole of the River..brought it into the Trench.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 131 Those great eddees..that suck into them..whatever comes within their reach.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 41 The Madness of the straiten'd Stream Turns in black Eddies round.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 105 The wheeling eddies boil.

1882 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. (ed. 2) 449 It is blunt tails rather than blunt noses that cause eddies.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul i. v. 130 Rain..brought..by the eddy in the winds.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 1 Indicated through circling eddies of fog.

1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda 22 A dustcloud rolls in eddies forth.

1791 G. Morris in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 413 There is in the current of their affairs a strong eddy or counter tide.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 147 An eddy of criticism.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xlviii. 71 The lightest wave of thought shall lisp, The fancy's tenderest eddy wreathe. View more context for this quotation

1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iii. 139 These are but the eddies of the royal history.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God ii. iv. 231 In the mighty eddies of an unseen, impersonal, mysterious agency.

1799 Naval Chron. 1 250 Eddy breezes from a hilly shore.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 201 They would rather have an eddy Stream against them.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 48 An Eddie tide is where the water doth runne backe contrary to the tide.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/2 Owing to the eddy tide these operations were not attended with success.

1899 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 153 W. S. Barnard, working under the direction of Riley, invented the admirable eddy chamber, or ‘cyclone system’ of nozzles.

a1594 J. White in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) III. 291 From the Cape to Virginia..are none but eddie currents.

1887 Jrnl. Soc. Telegraph-engineers & Electricians 16 65 The coil is surrounded..by a circular pole piece, cut away at one point to hinder eddy-currents.

1892 W. P. Maycock Electr. Lighting i. vi. 158 Most armatures of direct current machines have iron cores, and the revolution of the cores in the magnetic field would..cause currents to be induced in the core... These currents [are] called foucault or eddy currents.

1930 Engineering 6 June 724/3 Three systems were in use, operated, respectively, by hydraulic, pneumatic and electro-magnetic (eddy currents in the wheels) means.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Eddy-current brake.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 281/1 Eddy-current loss.

1943 Electronic Engin. 16 194 If a solid conductor is replaced by a number of insulated strands..it appears obvious at first sight that the eddy current losses must be reduced.

1877 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (ed. 2) iv. §1. 124 Rock possessing this [Current-Bedding] structure is sometimes called Eddy-Rock by quarrymen and well-sinkers.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 21 Eddying, in almost viewless wave, The weeping willow twig to lave.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. vii. 136 The unwonted sound, Eddying in echoes round and round.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ii. 30 The wind was high,..sweeping in the rain in every direction as it eddyed to and fro.

1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess II. 91 Large hungry eagles..eddying far above into the regions of air.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 285 A flat cake of ice eddied round near the floe we were upon.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §14. 97 The vapour..eddying wildly in the air.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 141 The circling mountains eddy in, From the bare wild, the dissipated storm.

1858 Sat. Rev. 6 113/1 How are we to tell that a comet..may not get eddyed (so to speak) by some great planet?

1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick iv. 28 The water is churned and eddied about.