Whirlpool : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Whirlpool	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Whirlpool
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whirlpool n a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) Synonym(s): whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom v flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl]
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 [bd]bal[91]n[91],[b8] take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land. --Holland.