Eddy

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.