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whirlpool |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whirlpool \Whirl"pool`\, n. 1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like 2. A sea monster of the whale kind [Obs.] --Spenser. The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are among which the whales and whirlpools, called ``bal[ae]n[ae],'' take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land. --Holland. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: whirlpool n : a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides) [syn: {vortex}, {maelstrom}] v : flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: {eddy}, {purl}, {gurge}, {swirl}, {whirl}]
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