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Whirler

noun
1.
A dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling.  Synonym: whirling dervish.
2.
A revolving mechanism.






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"Whirler" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brazen-thunder-hurler, Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos, Send vengeance on these Oreads Who strew White frozen flecks of mist and cloud Over the brown trees and the tufted grass Of the meadows, where the stream Runs black through ...
— Some Imagist Poets - An Anthology • Richard Aldington

... speculated upon the means by which it was arrived at. A girl drew those lines, a girl with a hand as sure as Giotto's, and no better tools than a couple of brushes and a small revolving table called a whirler. Forty-eight hours a week Mary Beechinor sat before her whirler. Actuating the treadle, she placed a piece of ware on the flying disc, and with a single unerring flip of the finger pushed it precisely to the centre; then ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett



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