WHORL
- a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle
- to move in a twisted or convoluted fashion [v WHORLED, WHORLING, WHORLS]
- arrangement of similar anatomical parts (as leaves) in a circle around a point on an axis
- fingerprint in which the central papillary ridges turn through at least one complete circle
- circular arrangement; spiral