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Definition of Gyrated
1. gyrate [v] - See also: gyrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyrated
Literary usage of Gyrated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"... the thing which has to be reciprocated or gyrated. The crank and connecting
rod being absent, the balance weights are now unbalanced except dynamically, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1913)
"I talked with Bayley twenty minutes in the parlor after this chair had gyrated
up-stairs for Mr. McLane. Still he may have been up there when the chair came ..."
3. Spun Yarns of a Naval Officer by Albert R. Wonham (1917)
"And so we gyrated, and so we might have gyrated until now, for as soon as I tried
to mount him he kept circling away from me. This had gone on for some time ..."
4. The Meaning of Words: Analysed Into Words and Unverbal Things, and Unverbal by Alexander Bryan Johnson (1862)
"In our day, many people will testify that they have seen tables gyrated, and
heard tables rapped, by the spirits of the dead. Such people are unaware of the ..."
5. Tropical Sketches; Or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist by William Knighton (1855)
"and twisted, and gyrated and vibrated, elaborately tortured, intricately twisted,
vehemently gyrated, and incessantly vibrated. ..."
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