circumvolutions

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A form of circumvolution — The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of circumvolution

    It is said, on the contrary, that during each and every one of his one-and twenty circumvolutions he emitted no less than one-and-twenty distinct and furious whiffs from his pipe, to which he held fast the whole time with all his might...

    1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, page 5
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