whelming

English

Verb

whelming

1. present participle of whelm

Noun

whelming (plural whelmings)

1. Something that covers or submerges.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     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, […]