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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Types
- Button whirligigs
- Buzzers
- Friction and string whirligigs
- Wind-driven
- History
- Etymology of the word
- Origins and evolution
- As folk art
- In literature
- In films
- In science
- See also
- Citations
- General bibliography
- External links
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A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. They are most commonly powered by the wind but can be hand-, friction- or motor-powered. They can be used as kinetic garden ornaments, and can be designed to transmit sound and vibration into the ground to repel burrowing rodents.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “whirligig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.