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What does "welter" mean?

Welter: To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows. "The weltering waves." Milton. Waves that, hardly weltering, die away. Wordsworth. Through this blindly weltering sea. Trench.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To wither; to wilt. [R.] Weltered hearts and blighted . . . memories. I. Taylor.
  2. 3.Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
  3. 4.That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough. The foul welter of our so-called religious or other controversies. Carlyle.
  4. 5.A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

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