Definition of whirl

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