Definition of: swivel

(swiv′əl) noun
1. A coupling device, link, ring, or pivot that permits either half of a mechanism, as a chain, to rotate independently.
2. A rest on a boat's gunwale, on which a gun may be swept or swung in a horizontal plane.
3. Anything that turns on a pin or headed bolt.
4. A cannon that swings on a pivot: also swivel gun.
5. The shuttle of a ribbon loom.
—v. ·eled or ·elled, ·el·ing or ·el·ling v.t.
1. To turn on or as on a swivel.
2. To provide with or secure by a swivel.
—v.i.
3. To turn or swing on or as on a swivel.[ME swyuel <OE swif-, stem of swífan move]
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