Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHIRL
WHIRL, v.i.
- To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; as, the whirling spindles of a cotton machine or wheels of a coach. The wooden engine flies and whirls about. – Dryden.
- To move hastily. But whirl'd away to shun his hateful sight. – Dryden.
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