1. (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

2. (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.

3. (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

4. (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.

5. (n.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.

6. (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.

7. (n.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

8. (n.) A whorl. See Whorl.

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