What does "whelm" mean?
Whelm: Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows. "The whelming weight of crime." J. H. Newman.
Additional senses
- 2.To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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