whisk

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

• intransitive verb To move or cause to move with quick light sweeping motions.
• intransitive verb To whip (eggs or cream).
• intransitive verb To move lightly, nimbly, and rapidly.
• noun A quick light sweeping motion.
• noun A whiskbroom.
• noun A small bunch, as of twigs or hair, attached to a handle and used in brushing.
• noun A kitchen utensil, usually in the form of stiff, thin wire loops attached to a handle, used for whipping foodstuffs.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The game of whist.
• noun A wisp or small bunch, as of grass, hair, or straw; specifically, such a wisp used as a brush, broom, or besom, and especially in modern usage one made of the ripened panicle of broom-corn (see broom-corn and Sorghum), used for brushing the dust off clothes, etc.
• noun An instrument used for whisking, agitating, or beating certain articles, such as cream or eggs.
• noun A coopers' plane for leveling the chimes of casks.
• noun A neckerchief worn by women in the seventeenth century. Also called falling-whisk, apparently in distinction from the ruff.
• noun A brief, rapid sweeping motion as of something light; a sudden stroke, whiff, puff, or gale.
• noun A servant.
• noun An impertinent follow.
• To sweepor brush with a light, rapid motion: as, to whisk the dust from a table.
• To agitate or mix with a light, rapid motion; beat: as, to whisk eggs.
• To move with a quick, sweeping motion or flourish; move briskly.
• To flourish about.
• To carry suddenly and rapidly; whirl.
• To move with a quick, sweeping motion; move nimbly and swiftly: as, to whisk away.

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

• intransitive verb To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.
• noun obsolete A game at cards; whist.
• noun The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
• noun A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
• noun A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
• noun A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
• noun Prov. Eng. An impertinent fellow.
• noun A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
• transitive verb To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion
• transitive verb To move with a quick, sweeping motion.

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

• noun A quick, light sweeping motion.
• noun A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
• noun A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
• noun A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
• verb transitive To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
• verb transitive In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
• verb transitive To move something rapidly and with no warning.
• verb intransitive To move lightly and nimbly.

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

• verb brush or wipe off lightly
• noun a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
• verb move somewhere quickly
• verb move quickly and nimbly
• verb whip with or as if with a wire whisk
• noun a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream