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noun

Eddy n. (pl. eddies)

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. "And smiling eddies dimpled on the main." "Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play." Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.

verb

Eddy v. t. To collect as into an eddy. (R.) "The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm."

Eddy v. i. (past & past part. eddied; pres. part. eddying) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. "Eddying round and round they sink."

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Etymology of 'Eddy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... form was still visible, moving slowly through the snow. At that moment a terrific storm of wind struck the house; it made every window and timber rattle; great clouds of snow were swept up from the ground to mingle with those coming from above, and the two were thrown into a whirling eddy that struck the poor traveller and took him from his feet, covering him from sight. Mandy rushed to the door and opened it. This time she did not scream "Hello." The word this time was "Hiram! He is lost! He is lost!" she ...

— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin

... in abrupt silence. The shiny black cylinder of Dr. Warner's official hat sailed off his head in the long, smooth parabola of an airship, and in almost cresting a garden tree was caught in the topmost branches. Another hat was gone. Those in that garden felt themselves caught in an unaccustomed eddy of things happening; no one seemed to know what would blow away next. Before they could speculate, the cheering and hallooing hat-hunter was already halfway up the tree, swinging himself from fork to fork with his strong, bent, grasshopper ...

— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton

... law to the contrary notwithstanding, copyright is hereby granted to the trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, their successors, and assigns, in the work "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (entitled also in some editions "Science and Health" or "Science and Health; with a Key to the Scriptures"), by Mary Baker Eddy, including all editions thereof in English and translation ...

— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... raging flood bore baby and puss, until dark night came down. For hours more they drifted until, happily, the cradle was swept into an eddy in front of a village. There it spun round and round, and might soon have been borne into the greater flood, which seemed to roar louder as ...

— Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks • William Elliot Griffis

... Then, as fresh stress was brought to bear, it gradually yielded, stubbornly at first, then more and more, till the line was gathering fast in the bottom of the boat, and a sudden splash and tremendous eddy half a dozen yards away showed that the fish ...

— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn

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