1. whirl - Noun
2. whirl - Verb
To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
To move hastily or swiftly.
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.
Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
A whorl. See Whorl.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities. Hunter S. Thompson
Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress... Leonardo da Vinci
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. Matthew Simpson
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. Gene Tierney
The music ends. The screen grows dark. We hurry To go our devious secret ways, forgetting Those many lives . . . We loved, we laughed, we killed, We danced in fire, we drowned in a whirl of sea-waves. The flutes are stilled, and a thousand dreams are stilled. Conrad Aiken
Do not whirl a snake in the air when you have killed it; the ones which remain in their holes see you. Tongan Proverb