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Webster 1828 Edition


Whelming

WHELMING

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ppr.
Covering, as by immersion.

Definition 2024


whelming

whelming

English

Verb

whelming

  1. present participle of whelm

Noun

whelming (plural whelmings)

  1. Something that covers or submerges.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, []