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Whorl   /wərl/  /wɔrl/  /hwɔrl/   Listen
noun
Whorl  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
2.
(Zool.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
3.
(Spinning) The fly of a spindle.





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"Whorl" Quotes from Famous Books



... the splendid mare sprang forward; there was a whirl of wheels, a whorl of rays as the gleaming spokes caught the sunshine, and ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... Her mind, emptied in a moment, was in a moment filled, brimming over with the thought of God. To her veiled vision that thought was like a sheet of blank light let down behind her drooped eyelids, and centring in a luminous whorl. It fascinated her. Her prayer shot straight to the heart of it, a communion too swift to trouble or ...
— The Helpmate • May Sinclair
... in the "Linnean Transacts." (603/4. Volume XVI., page 685.) he suggests (and Lindley cautiously agrees) that the flower of orchids consists of five whorls, the inner whorl of the two whorls of anthers being all rudimentary, and when the labellum presents ridges, two or three of the anthers of both whorls [are] combined with it. In the ovarium there are six bundles of vessels: R. Brown judged by transverse sections. It occurred to me, ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat, 'take a strand of the wire that you are spinning and tie it to your spinning-whorl and drag it along the floor, and I will show you a magic that shall make your Baby laugh as loudly ...
— Just So Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... convenience of his utensils has been an important agent in the modification of form. The earliest vessels employed were often clumsy and difficult to handle. The favorite conch shell would hold water for him who wished to drink, but the breaking away of spines and the extraction of the interior whorl improved it immeasurably. The clumsy mortar of stone, with its thick walls and great weight, served a useful purpose, but it needed a very little intelligent thought to show that thin walls and neatly-trimmed ...
— Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. • William Henry Holmes


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