What does "eddy" mean?
Eddy: A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison. Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
Additional senses
- 2.To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
- 3.To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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