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Twirl   /twərl/   Listen
noun
Twirl  n.  
1.
The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.
2.
A twist; a convolution.


verb
Twirl  v. t.  (past & past part. twirled; pres. part. twirling)  To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. "See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel." "No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet."


Twirl  v. i.  To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Twirl" Quotes from Famous Books



... among all the world. Him whom I meant was your terrestrial Dalai-Lama; he to whom you have given the title of 'Father of the Church.' That is a great sin. May he be brought back, with the flock, who are now in a bad road," piously added the lama, giving another twirl ...
— The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ - The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery • Nicolas Notovitch
... with me," said she. "I want you to gather little tendrils of dry moss and watch beside me while I twirl the stick. The moment I tell you to, you must drop little pieces of dry moss into the hollow place in the wood. Firetop, you gather a great heap of sticks here on top of the rock." Limberleg knelt on the edge of the rock and began to twirl the stick between her hands. As she twirled ...
— The Cave Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... chirps its chimney song, Within some crumbling chink, with moss embrown'd, The lighted stick diverts the infant throng, And fans are waved, and ribbands twirl'd around. ...
— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent
... eyes—is the elaborate performance of our most common woodpecker, the flicker, or high-hole. Two or three male birds scrape and bow and pose and chatter about the demure female, outrageously undignified as compared with their usual behaviour. They do everything save twirl their ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... strove to tear the stout strands apart and make an opening through which to pass, or thrust at us in their turn with their spears. Suddenly, in the dim starlight, as I was busily reloading my revolver, I saw the cook emerge from the galley with what looked like a bucket in his hand. With a quick twirl he seemed to throw the contents of this bucket through the net just where the savages were crowding thickest on the other side of it, and the next instant there arose a more than usually piercing chorus ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood


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