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Shell :: Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..

Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel..

Lap :: Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases..

Premeditate :: Premeditate (v. i.) To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand..

Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or,

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve..

Whir :: Whir (v. i.) To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz..

Twirl :: Twirl (v. i.) To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.

Turn :: Turn (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact..

Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs..

Circle :: Circle (n.) To move around; to revolve around.

Revolvement :: Revolvement (n.) Act of revolving.

Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

Birl :: Birl (v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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