2. Verb. (third-person singular of swirl) ¹
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Definition of Swirls
1. swirl [v] - See also: swirl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swirls
Literary usage of Swirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maine Pioneer Settlements by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1909)
"... through the ruins of which breaks a purling trout brook which swirls and eddies
about a basin alder-rimmed, MILL CREEK—RUINS OF HARMON'S ANCIENT CORN ..."
2. Notes on Irrigation, Roads & Buildings & on the Water Supply of Towns by William Lumisden Strange (1920)
"swirls. (i) A swirl, or rotatory eddy, is produced by a forward- moving current
brushing past still water, which thus gives the flow a circular motion. ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"5 to 10 show the peculiar swirls of pro-eutectoid ferrite, the finding of which
prompted this paper. These swirls, or eddies, if such a term can be applied, ..."
4. Maine Pioneer Settlements by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1909)
"... through the ruins of which breaks a purling trout brook which swirls and eddies
about a basin alder-rimmed, MILL CREEK—RUINS OF HARMON'S ANCIENT CORN ..."
5. Notes on Irrigation, Roads & Buildings & on the Water Supply of Towns by William Lumisden Strange (1920)
"swirls. (i) A swirl, or rotatory eddy, is produced by a forward- moving current
brushing past still water, which thus gives the flow a circular motion. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"5 to 10 show the peculiar swirls of pro-eutectoid ferrite, the finding of which
prompted this paper. These swirls, or eddies, if such a term can be applied, ..."
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