wirblev.
/ˈwəːb(ə)l/ intransitive. To turn round and round; to whirl; to eddy.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > whirl
turnOE
whirlc1384
hurlc1400
reelc1400
whirligig1687
vertiginate1814
wirble1848
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iv. ii. 245 I was girt round with dead men's bones; and the bones moved round me, undulating, as the dry leaves that wirble round in the winds of the winter.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur xii. cxv And here and there, and wirbelling to and fro,..pale thousands spread the plain.
1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile i. iv. §6. 9 The waters went wirbling above and around.
Derivatives
ˈwirble n. whirl.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > whirling > an act of
whirl?a1505
reel?1572
swinge1583
whirligig1589
wirble1848
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. ix. vii. 32 The gibe and the wirble of the dead men's bones.
1932 J. Joyce Let. 1 Aug. (1966) III. 251 But what about me in my present wirbel of worries.
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