cycloning

Verb

cyclone (third-person singular simple present cyclones, present participle cycloning, simple past and past participle cycloned)

1. To separate using a cyclone separator.
   • The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate.1977, Western Miner and Oil Review - Volume 50, page 35
2. To storm as a cyclone.
   • What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned?1907, O. Henry, “The Purple Dress”, in The Trimmed Lamp
3. To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.
   • White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age
4. To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.
   • When Whyte got an eyeful of our groundsman's Barkjano ass bouncing to a rapid beat, he exploded, not so much in words as in gestures and a rapid departure that contained far greater energy than a trifling “storm”—he cycloned-whirlwinded-squalled and thundergaled out of the house and the whole...early 21st century, Wilyem Clark, The Imbeciliad, page 79

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