Definition of "whirl"

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co.

My brained [sic] whirled as he went on, but yet there was a fearful impression that the worst was not told.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 13

He whirls his sword around without delay.

1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.

c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646

To-night the winds begin to rise⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,The rooks are blown about the skies; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XV, page 24

The passionate heart of the poet is whirl’d into folly.

1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […]