whirling table

English

Noun

whirling table (plural whirling tables)

  1. An apparatus fitted with one or more revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, etc., for illustrating physical laws and phenomena.
  2. A potter's wheel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whirling table”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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