trolley vs whirl

trolley

noun
  • A soapbox car. 

  • A streetcar or light train. 

  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 

  • A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. 

  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 

  • A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. 

  • A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. 

  • A handcar. 

  • A hand truck. 

  • A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. 

verb
  • To bring to by trolley. 

  • To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train). 

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another. 

whirl

noun
  • Something that whirls. 

  • (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial. 

  • A rapid series of events. 

  • Dizziness or giddiness. 

  • An act of whirling. 

  • A confused tumult. 

verb
  • To make something or someone whirl. 

  • To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. 

  • To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. 

  • To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. 

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