whelm
A surge of waterA surge of water.
» What a gracious speech, what a daring pledge to a world whelmed in tyranny and wrong!
Meaning
2 senses(also, figuratively, poetic)A surge of water.
the whelm of the tide
A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
Examples
1 sentencesWhat a gracious speech, what a daring pledge to a world whelmed in tyranny and wrong!
Origin
From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhapFrom Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwalb, from Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve”).
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