whirlpit

noun

whirlpit

noun

Etymology From Middle English whirl-pit, whorllepyte, equivalent to whirl + pit.

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Obsolete A whirlpool.

raging whirlpits1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:

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