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eddy

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eddy
a movement in a stream of air, water, or other fluid in which the current doubles back on itself causing a miniature whirlwind or whirlpool

Eddy
Mary Baker. 1821--1910, US religious leader; founder of the Christian Science movement (1866)

eddy [′ed·ē]
(fluid mechanics)
A vortexlike motion of a fluid running contrary to the main current.


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Between 1 May, when she stepped off the train, and 16 May, when she received Eddy Moore's letter containing the information that he had found her a post as stenographer in the office of Joe Rendal, it had changed Mary Hill quite remarkably.
They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
Jane and Josie both answered at once and the chatter drifted into a side eddy of fashions.
 
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