The motion needed to power a friction whirligig is very similar to rubbing sticks together to create fire.
The simplest and most common example of a wind-driven whirligig is the pinwheel.
Female transgressors of the correct codes were forced to endure the whirligig.
Members of this suborder are adephagans, a term which notably include ground beetles, tiger beetles, predacious diving beetles, and whirligig beetles.
Now the whirligig has gone round to such an extent that you put on a tax which is far heavier that the amount of the rates you remitted.
If the bakers get a rise and recoup themselves out of price increases instantly off-set by subsidies, we shall be moving from a spiral to a whirligig.
The whirligig of time brings strange events.
The whirligig of time brings its vengeance.