whorl   (Sound)

The noun whorl has 3 senses

• coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll -- (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals))


• lock, curl, ringlet, whorl -- (a strand or cluster of hair)


• coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix -- (a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope")