Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
whorl , 4. Also calledspindle-whorl .
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Examples
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'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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