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ve and turn rapidly with the fingers. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.

To untwist; to undo. Ash.

rmed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.…

To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope. [Local, U.S.]

To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.

A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers. The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a teetotum nearly spent. Dickens.

To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.

To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] Gascoigne. Bid him descend and trill another pin. Chaucer.

To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also twidle.] Thackeray.

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. Wallis.