gyratory

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Activists have also blocked Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory, the group says.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021

Dr Malik Saleh, a dentist stuck at the Hanger Lane gyratory, has been forced to cancel appointments.

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

Storms are now admitted by all seamen to be gyratory, as we have seen.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules