gyratory movement

Miss Climpson was surprised by this statement, which seemed to argue a high degree of imagination, but she obligingly imparted a slight gyratory movement to the table.

There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.

Yogic masters have described the movement of pre-physical matter as 'circulatory', and Democritas, Greek philosopher of the late fifth century BC and a pupil of the esoteric school, taught that this gyratory movement of the atoms and spheres existed from eternity.