Imagine great snow storms over the oceans, in the mountains, deep in the clouds... for millions of years on this planet, ...billions of tiny snow crystals have been whirling about...Womb (2010)
Whirling table. (a) (Physics) An apparatus provided with one or more revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, and other attachments, for illustrating the phenomena and laws of centrifugal force, and the like.(b)A potter's wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]