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swiv⋅el

[swiv-uh

noun, verb, -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British

) -elled, -el⋅ling.

–noun

1.	a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, esp. to turn in a full circle.

2.	such a device consisting of two parts, each of which turns around independently, as a compound link of a chain, one part of which turns freely in the other by means of a headed pin or the like.

3.	a pivoted support allowing a gun to turn around in a horizontal plane.

4.	a swivel gun.

5.	a device attached to a loom and used as a shuttle to weave extra threads in the production of small figures, esp. dots.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to turn or pivot on or as if on a swivel: He swiveled his chair around.

7.	to fasten by a swivel; furnish with a swivel.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to turn on or if as on a swivel.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME (n.), equiv. to swiv- (weak s. of OE swīfan to revolve; c. ON svīfa to turn) + -el instrumental suffix

Related forms:

swiv⋅el⋅like, adjective

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swiv·el (swĭv'əl)

A link, pivot, or other fastening so designed that it permits the free turning of attached parts.
A pivoted support that allows an attached object, such as a chair or gun, to turn in a horizontal plane.
A gun that turns on a pivot.

v. swiv·eled or swiv·elled, swiv·el·ing or swiv·el·ling, swiv·els

v. tr.

v. intr.
To turn on or as if on a swivel.

[Middle English swyvel.]

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