Meanings
adjectiveswirling (not comparable)
- not comparablethat swirls
When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152
nounswirling (countable and uncountable, plural swirlings)
plural swirlings
- countableuncountableA pattern or motion that swirls.
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of swirl
Translations
Esperanto kirliĝanta
- kirliĝantathat swirls
Spanish arremolinante, remolinante
- arremolinantethat swirls
- remolinantethat swirls
- remolineantethat swirls
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with swirling
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