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zoetrope

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zoetrope [ˈzəʊɪˌtrəʊp]
n
(Group Games / Games, other than specified) a cylinder-shaped toy with a sequence of pictures on its inner surface which, when viewed through the vertical slits spaced regularly around it while the toy is rotated, produce an illusion of animation
[Greek zoe life + trope turn]


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At every half mile the horses and the donkeys jumped the water-channels--up, on, change your leg, and off again like figures in a zoetrope, till they grew small along the line of waterwheels.
 
 
 
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