circling

English

Verb

circling

1. present participle of circle

Noun

circling (plural circlings)

1. A circular motion.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     […] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.