A bird of the genus Hirundo, esp. H. rustica, a well-known migratory bird with long pointed wings and forked tail, having a swift curving flight…

A deep pool; a deep place in a river or the sea; a whirlpool or eddy.

The sucking action of eddying or swirling water; the sound caused by this; locally, the place at which a body of water moves in such a way as to…

A whirlpool: = swallow, n.2 2. Obsolete.

A whirlpool.

An eddy, a whirlpool; an eddying or whirling body of water, in later use also of cloud, dust, etc.

A whirlpool.

A whirlpool, gulf, chasm.

A place in, or part of, a river or the sea, where the water is in constant (and usually rapid) circular movement, due to the configuration of the…

(See quots.)

An absorbing eddy; a whirlpool. In later use chiefly figurative, that which devours or swallows up anything. (Blending with 4b.)

A whirlpool. Obsolete.

An obsolete variant of whirlpool, n.2

= whirlpool, n.2.

(a) a whirlpool; (b) a deep place in the sea.

A powerful whirlpool, originally (usually Maelstrom) one in the Arctic Ocean off the west coast of Norway, which was formerly supposed to suck in…

An abyss, gulf, or chasm.

A whirlpool, an eddy. Chiefly (and now only) in place names.

A whirlpool, gulf; dialect a pool, pond.

A whirlpool (literal and figurative); Heraldry = gurges, n. b.

A whirlpool; also, the local name for the race in Pentland Firth.

A whirl or swirling mass of water; a strong eddy or whirlpool.

transferred. A whirling mass or system; a vortex; a whirl; an eddy, a whirlpool. Also figurative.

= whirly-wind n.

(a) a space enclosed by masonry for a large wheel, as a fly-wheel or turbine, to turn in; (b) dialect a whirlpool.

A strong, narrow current on or near the surface of the sea, flowing directly out from the shore, esp. over a submerged channel or gully; an…

an eddy or whirlpool.

†(a) ? (see quot. 1627); (b) U.S. a whirlpool, a pond; (c) Canadian and Australian slang, a term of abuse (cf. suck, n.1 12); hence as v. intransitive…