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单词 whirlery
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whirleryn.

Forms: Also 1500s -ary.
Etymology: < whirl v. + -ery suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
Whirling, circling flight (or ? roaring noise: cf. whurl v.). In first quot. as part of a jingling refrain.
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c1560 Doctour Doubble Ale 436 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 321 Fare well and a dewe; With a whirlary whewe, And a tirlary typpe.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 With gagling whirlerye flapping Theyr wings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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