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

Pot′-holes, holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The lateral inward and upward currents, are accompanied, after they meet and unite, or seem to unite, by gyratory or circular ones.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden