An eddy is a circular current of water.
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Eddy
/ˈɛdi/
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You may have seen an eddy if you've ever gone canoeing and you see a small whirlpool of water while you paddle through the water.
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Eddy has a lot of influence on her. She does everything he says.
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In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
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