Eddy
Eddy (ed"dy) , noun
[Probably from Icelandic iea; compare Icelandic pref. ie- back, Anglo-Saxon ed-, Old Saxon idug-, Old High German ita-; Gothic id-.]
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.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.
Eddy , intransitive verb
To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
Eddying round and round they sink.
Eddy , transitive verb
To collect as into an eddy. [Rare]
The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm.