whisk vs windmill

whisk

verb
  • To move something with quick light sweeping motions. 

  • To move whiskers. 

  • In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream. 

  • To move lightly and nimbly. 

  • To move something rapidly and with no warning. 

noun
  • A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush. 

  • A quick, light sweeping motion. 

  • A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress. 

  • A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function). 

  • A plane used by coopers for evening chines. 

  • A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle. 

windmill

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

  • Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. 

noun
  • A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball. 

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. 

  • Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper. 

  • Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill. 

  • An imaginary enemy, but presented as real. 

  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill. 

  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. 

  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • The false shower. 

  • A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air. 

  • A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop. 

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