gyratory
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Dr Malik Saleh, a dentist stuck at the Hanger Lane gyratory, has been forced to cancel appointments.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021
Activists have also blocked Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory, the group says.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021
Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He found them revolving like ours, and hence inferred the truth of the gyratory theory in relation to all winds.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
Two motions are usually visible, one ascending one near the earth and in the middle, and a gyratory one around the other.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
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