circumgyratory

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English

Etymology

From circum- +‎ gyratory.

Adjective

circumgyratory (not comparable)

  1. Moving in a circle; turning round.
    • 1858 September 23 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “September 23rd, ”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, London: Strahan & Co., , published 1871, →OCLC, page 179:
      The cider-making of New England is far more picturesque; the great heap of golden or rosy apples under the trees, and the cider-mill worked by a circumgiratory horse, and all agush with sweet juice.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “circumgyratory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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