gyratory
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gyratory
First recorded in 1810–20; gyrat(ion) + -ory 1
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Dr Malik Saleh, a dentist stuck at the Hanger Lane gyratory, has been forced to cancel appointments.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2021
Activists have also blocked Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory, the group says.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2021
Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The variegated butterflies and dragon-flies on the bank of the river, produce, by their gyratory movements, lively and fantastic plays of colour.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 by Various
Pot′-holes, holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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