Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whirlpool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A whirlpool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
whirlpool .
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Examples
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It makes such a whirlpit and whistling that you can hear it for a quarter of an hour's distance, but this is when the tide is ebbing, and only, and mostly, when it is running the strongest.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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