upwhirl

English

Etymology

up- +‎ whirl

Verb

upwhirl (third-person singular simple present upwhirls, present participle upwhirling, simple past and past participle upwhirled)

1. (intransitive) To rise upward in a whirl.
2. (transitive) To raise upward with a whirling motion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “upwhirl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)