Crossword-Solution: WHORL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whorl | n. & v. | A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem. |
| Whorl | n. & v. | A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. |
| Whorl | n. & v. | The fly of a spindle. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with WHORL (5)
The shaft and hook of this spindle are made of steel, and the whorl is made partly of steel and also partly of other materials.
Now the whorl is in form like the whorl used on earth; and the description of it implied that there is one large hollow whorl which is quite scooped out, and into this is fitted another lesser one, and another, and another, and four others, making eight in all, like vessels which fit into one another; the whorls show their edges on the upper side, and on their lower side all together form one continuous whorl.
The first and outermost whorl has the rim broadest, and the seven inner whorls are narrower, in the following proportions--the sixth is next to the first in size, the fourth next to the sixth; then comes the eighth; the seventh is fifth, the fifth is sixth, the third is seventh, last and eighth comes the second.
Those silent waters weave for him A fluctuant mutable world and dim, Where wavering masses bulge and gape Mysterious, and shape to shape Dies momently through whorl and hollow, And form and line and solid follow Solid and line and form to dream Fantastic down the eternal stream; An obscure world, a shifting world, Bulbous, or pulled to thin, or curled, Or serpentine, or driving arrows, Or serene slidings, or March narrows.
And out of the grass, on a sudden, broke A spirtle of fire, a whorl of smoke -- And Captain O'Neil of the Black Tyrone Was blessed with a slug in the ulnar-bone -- The gift of his enemy Boh Da Thone.
Quotes with WHORL (3)
It throbbed and pulsed, channeled by elemental forces of fear, love, hope, and sadness. The bow stabbed and flitted across the strings in a violent whorl of creation; its hairs tore and split until it seemed the last strands would sever in a scrape of dissonance. Those who saw the last fragile remnants held their breath against the breaking. The music rippled across the ship like a spirit, like a thing alive and eldritch and pregnant with mystery. The song held. More than hel…
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).