volventadj.
Turning round.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating
rolling?1518
turning1558
gyreful1566
gyring1590
revoluble1598
ambient?1614
vertiginous1680
revolving1681
rotating1757
veering1798
gyratory1815
peristrephic1816
peristrephical1827
gyral1828
gyrating1837
volutory1839
volvent1898
1898 G. Meredith Napoleon in Odes French Hist. xi Now had the Seaman's volvent sprite..Slung northward.
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