whelming
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]whelming
- present participle and gerund of whelm
Noun
[edit]whelming (plural whelmings)
- Something that covers or submerges.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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, […]