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swiv⋅el

  [swiv-uhl] 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.
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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)   
n.  

  1. A link, pivot, or other fastening so designed that it permits the free turning of attached parts.

  2. A pivoted support that allows an attached object, such as a chair or gun, to turn in a horizontal plane.

  3. A gun that turns on a pivot.

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

v.   tr.

  1. To turn or rotate on or as if on a swivel.

  2. To secure, fit, or support with a swivel.

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

[Middle English swyvel.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

swivel  (n.)
1307, from frequentative form of stem of O.E. verb swifan "to move in a course, sweep" (a class I strong verb), from P.Gmc. *swipanan (cf. O.Fris. swiva "to be uncertain," O.N. svifa "to rove, ramble, drift"), from PIE base *swei- "swing, bend, move in a sweeping manner." M.E. swive was the principal slang for "to have sexual intercourse with," a sense that developed c.1300. This probably explains why, though the root is verbal, the verb swivel is not attested in Mod.Eng. until 1794.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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