1) Pinwheel 2) Plaything 3) Revolving motion 4) Spinning top 5) Teetotum 6) Traditional toy 7) Whirl or spin like a
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1) Rotor 2) Teetotum 3) Top 4) Toy
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A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member that spins or whirls. Whirligigs are also known as pinwheels, buzzers, comic weathervanes, gee-haws, spinners, whirlygigs, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or plain whirly. Whirligigs are most commonly powered by the wind but can be hand, friction, or motor powered. They ca...
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[torture] A whirligig is a punitive or torture contraption comprising a suspended cage-like device. The victim would be placed in the cage, which was spun violently in order to cause severe nausea. This was used as a military punishment, as by the British Army. For example, in Tangiers, the whirligig was reportedly used on women, by whom it...
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• (n.) A child`s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. • (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. • (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the ...
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1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. ... 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. 'With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head.' (G. W. Cable) ... 3. A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders...
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Whirl'i·gig noun [
Whirl +
gig .]
1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
Johnson. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. « With a ...
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[
v] - whirl or spin like a whirligig
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spinning top noun a conical child`s plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; `he got a bright red top and string for his birthday`
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