whorl
/wawrl, wurl, hwawrl, hwurl/US // wɔrl, wɜrl, ʰwɔrl, ʰwɜrl //UK // (wɜːl) //
漩涡,漩涡状,涡旋,涡流
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n.名词 noun
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- : a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
- : one of the turns or volutions of a spiral shell.
- : anything shaped like a coil.
- : one of the central ridges of a fingerprint, forming at least one complete circle.
- : Textiles. a flywheel or pulley, as for a spindle.
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The artist achieves a similar effect without painting in “Round and Round,” in which Easter-egg hues underlie an oval inscribed with fingerprint-like whorls.
Fig. 66 shows a biconical whorl, and its top is decorated to represent three Swastikas and three burning altars.
The centers of the crosses are occupied by the central hole of the whorl, while the arms extend to the periphery.
The specimen represented in fig. 76 is not a spindle-whorl, as shown by the number and location of the holes.
The whorl shown in fig. 45 is nearly spherical, with two Swastikas in the upper part.
In this collection is a spindle-whorl, found at 13½ feet (4 meters) depth and belonging to the fourth city.
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