kręcica

Polish

Etymology

From kręcić +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

Noun

kręcica f

  1. (Eastern Lublin, Zamość County) carousel (ride where a pole is driven into the ground and a beam several cubits long is placed on it so that it can rotate; one boy sits on one end of the beam, another on the other, and the others spin it around)
    Synonym: krętawka
    Coordinate term: kobylica

Further reading

  • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “kręcica”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 210
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