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Twirling
(gcide) | Twirl \Twirl\ (tw[~e]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twirled
(tw[~e]rld); p. pr. & vb. n. Twirling.] [Cf. AS.
[thorn]wiril a churn staff, a stirrer, flail, [thorn]weran,
[=a][thorn]weran, to agitate, twirl, G. zwirlen, quirlen,
querlen to twirl, to turn round or about, quirl a twirling
stick, OHG. dweran to twirl, stir. Cf. Trowel.]
To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and
turn rapidly with the fingers.
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See ruddy maids,
Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
--Dodsley.
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No more beneath soft eve's consenting star
Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. --Byron.
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twirlingly
(encz) | twirlingly, adv: |
twirlingly
(wn) | twirlingly
adv 1: doing twirls; "they had a most twirlingly magnificent
time" |
twirling baton
(foldoc) | twirling baton
The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an
animated twirling baton. If you output it with a single
backspace between characters, the baton spins in place. If
you output the sequence BS SP between characters, the baton
spins from left to right. If you output BS SP BS BS between
characters, the batton spins from right to left.
The twirling baton was a popular component of animated
signature files on the pioneering PLATO educational
time-sharing system. The "archie" Internet service is
perhaps the best-known baton program today; it uses the
twirling baton as an idler indicating that the program is
working on a query.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-23)
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twirling baton
(jargon) | twirling baton
n.
[PLATO] The overstrike sequence -/|\-/|\- which produces an animated
twirling baton. If you output it with a single backspace between
characters, the baton spins in place. If you output the sequence BS SP
between characters, the baton spins from left to right. If you output BS SP
BS BS between characters, the baton spins from right to left. This is also
occasionally called a twiddle prompt.
The twirling baton was a popular component of animated signature files on
the pioneering PLATO educational timesharing system. The archie Internet
service is perhaps the best-known baton program today; it uses the twirling
baton as an idler indicating that the program is working on a query. The
twirling baton is also used as a boot progress indicator on several BSD
variants of Unix; if it stops, you're probably going to have a long and
trying day.
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