Whelm

Definitions

1. A surge of water.
   also, figuratively, poetic
2. A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.

Equivalents

Examples

“the whelm of the tide”

“I wonder⟳ about things and the people between us. The currents, the feedback, and the whelms. The sharp cracks between trees, and the tolling between the knees.”

“[...] I stood waiting, glad of a first tremor / Then caught up in the now-or-never whelm / Of one and all the full length of the train⟳.”

“As our country developed, the clash of new immigrating cultures were all positioning themselves throughout the United States and their political leaders were individually striving for their own⟳ egotistical whelm of power [...]”

“A whelm was a wooden drainpipe, a hollowed-out tree trunk, "whelmed down" or turned with the concavity downwards to form⟳ an arched watercourse.”

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