Crossword-Solution: WHIRL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whirl | v. t. | To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. |
| Whirl | v. t. | To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry. |
| Whirl | v. i. | To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. |
| Whirl | v. i. | To move hastily or swiftly. |
| Whirl | v. t. | 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. |
| Whirl | v. t. | Anything that moves with a whirling motion. |
| Whirl | v. t. | A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached. |
| Whirl | v. t. | A whorl. See Whorl. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with WHIRL (5)
Gardner’s employment, I was kept in such a perpetual whirl of excitement, I could think of nothing, scarcely, but my life; and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
Using the X-windows client is much more intuitive---if it's installed, just read its man page and give it a whirl.
Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-coloured robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech.
Maybe there was a murmur in the village streets, a novel and dominant topic in the public-houses, and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of the later occurrences, caused a whirl of excitement, a shouting, and a running to and fro; but for the most part the daily routine of working, eating, drinking, sleeping, went on as it had done for countless years—as though no planet Mars existed in the sky.
For while the startled mice rushed wildly about the room the Scarecrow had only time to note a whirl of skirts and a twinkling of feet as the girls disappeared from the palace—pushing and crowding one another in their mad efforts to escape.
Quotes with WHIRL (3)
Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real; because at last I have cursed myself; because after my fantastic nights I have moments of returning sobriety, which are awful! Meanwhile, you hear the whirl and roar of the crowd in the vortex of life around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is …
Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of thingscannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of thingscannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of thingscannot speak truth.
No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 56 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).