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Webster 1828 Edition
Whelming
WHELMING
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Definition 2024
whelming
whelming
English
Verb
whelming
- present participle of whelm
Noun
whelming (plural whelmings)
- 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, […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick