About The Word Whirlpool
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Whirlpool
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What's The Definition Of Whirlpool?
[n] a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)
[v] flow in a circular current, of liquids Synonyms | Synonyms for Whirlpool: eddy | maelstrom | purl | swirl | vortex | whirl Related Terms | Find terms related to Whirlpool: See Also | Charybdis | course | current | flow | run | stream Whirlpool In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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