whirl

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To rotate rapidly about a center or an axis; spin.
• intransitive verb To move while rotating or turning about: synonym: turn.
• intransitive verb To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel.
• intransitive verb To have the sensation of spinning; reel.
• intransitive verb To cause to rotate or turn rapidly.
• intransitive verb To cause to move with a spinning motion.
• intransitive verb To drive at high speed.
• intransitive verb Obsolete To hurl.
• noun The act of rotating or revolving rapidly.
• noun Something, such as a cloud of dust, that whirls or is whirled.
• noun A state of confusion; a tumult.
• noun A swift succession or round of events.
• noun A state of mental confusion or giddiness; dizziness.
• noun Informal A short trip or ride.
• noun Informal A brief or experimental try.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In angling, a spoon-bait.
• To swing or turn rapidly round; rotate, or cause to revolve rapidly.
• To cast with a twirling or twisting motion; throw with a rapid whirl.
• To carry swiftly away with or as if with a revolving or wheeling motion.
• Synonyms To twirl, spin, revolve, rotate.
• To turn rapidly; move round with velocity; revolve or rotate swiftly.
• To pass or move with a rapid whirling motion, or as if on wheels.
• noun The whorl of a spindle.
• noun A reel or hook used in rope-making for twisting strands of hemp or gut.
• noun A rope-winch.
• noun In botany and conchology See whorl.
• noun A rapid circling motion or movement, as that of a revolving body; rapid rotation, gyration, or circumvolution: literally and figuratively: as, the whirl of a top or of a wheel; the whirls of fancy.
• noun Something that whirls, or moves with a rapid circling motion; the circling eddy of a whirlpool, a whirlwind, or the like.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
• intransitive verb To move hastily or swiftly.
• transitive verb To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
• transitive verb To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
• noun A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion.
• noun Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
• noun A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
• noun (Bot. & Zoöl.) A whorl. See Whorl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• verb intransitive To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
• verb transitive To make something or someone whirl.
• noun An act of whirling.
• noun Something that whirls.
• noun A confused tumult.
• noun A rapid series of events
• noun Dizziness or giddiness.
• noun usually following “give” A brief experiment or trial.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb turn in a twisting or spinning motion
• noun the act of rotating rapidly
• verb fly around
• verb flow in a circular current, of liquids
• verb revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis