spinning-whorl love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as whorl, 4. Also called spindle-whorl.

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Examples

  • 'take a strand of the wire that you are spinning and tie it to your spinning-whorl and drag it along the floor, and I will show you a magic that shall make your Baby laugh as loudly as he is now crying.'

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

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