Meaning of Welling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
3. A place name:
   countable, uncountable
4. A suburban area in the borough of Bexley, south-eastern Greater London, England, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ4676).
   countable, uncountable
5. A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
   countable, uncountable
6. A hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
7. A census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.”

“Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.”

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