carousel

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  1. noun A merry-go-round, as one at an amusement park.
  2. noun A circular conveyor on which objects are displayed or rotated: a baggage carousel in an airport.
  3. noun A tournament in which knights or horsemen engaged in various exercises and races.

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  • To replace the "carousel," Pokryshkin suggested another combat formation upon a patrol's arrival in the zone of probable encounter with the enemy. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
  • My head was going like a carousel, each rotation turning into one more round of neurotic speculation. —  Meredith Blevins - [Szabo 01] - The Hummingbird Wizard
  • In Charlotte once I passed the gate and headed for the carousel, where I was forced to contemplate a universe quite parallel. —  EQMM, August 2005
  • But in the time he'd taken to reserve two cars and board the carrier, no one else had come into the carousel area. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • The baggage carousel, the espresso machine, the car rental counter (no person there, just a self serve terminal) and even the surveillance camera that watched my son juggle his soccer ball while I packed our bags in the trunk. —  MSDN Blogs
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  1. French carrousel, tilting match, carousel, from Italian carosello, tilting match.
 

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/ˈkæruzəl,zəl/
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