Verb (used without object) : The earth revolves around the sun. ,The wheel revolves slowly.    From Dictionary.com. 

Figs. 1 and 2 represent, upon a scale of about 1/10, two types of torpedoes, the greatest number possible of the parts of which are made revolvable, so as to render the torpedoes as dirigible as the gyrating motion permits of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference

This instrument is the outgrowth of the stylus forms of the apparatus described, but in this case the stylus, or needle, is fixed to a metallic diaphragm, and its point makes an impression on suitable material placed on the outside of a revolvable cylinder or disc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference