swirling
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Adjective
swirling (not comparable)
- that swirls
- 1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
- When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
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