eddying
English
editVerb
editeddying
- present participle and gerund of eddy
Noun
editeddying (plural eddyings)
- The motion of an eddy.
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine, page 59:
- If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 22, in Burmese Days[1]:
- At last, more from the natural eddying of the crowd than by his own effort, he found himself flung out into the open.