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WHIRLIGIG, n. [whirl and gig.]

1. A toy which children spin or whirl round.

2. In military antiquities, an instrument for punishing petty offenders, as sutlers, brawling women, _c.; a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.

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