† whirlpitn.

Forms: Also 1600s hurlpit.

Etymology: < whirl- comb. form + pit n.¹

Obsolete.

= whirlpool n.².

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun]

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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 94/2 [He] ranne into a whurlepyt, where he was drowned.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. iii. sig. Giii The deepest whirlepit of the rau'nous Seas.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxix. xxxii. 734 Two of them [horses]..were swallowed up of the deepe hurlpits.

a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. iv. 164 To escape the hands of his enemies, he ran into a whirlepit and his body was never found.

1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 92 As if the Water had at once ingulph'd itself in a Chasm of the Earth, or sunk in a Whirlpit.

figurative.1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 420 b To throwe vs headlong into the whourlepytte of euerlasting dampnation.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 143 England recovered out of the whirlepit of calamities.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	whirlpit
释义	† whirlpitn. Forms: Also 1600s hurlpit. Etymology: < whirl- comb. form + pit n.¹ Obsolete. = whirlpool n.². ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun] swallowa700 weelc897 suckc1220 swallowinga1387 swelthc1400 swirlc1425 gorce1480 vorage1490 whirlpool1530 gourd1538 gulf1538 poolc1540 hurlpool1552 whirlpit1564 sea-gulf1571 maelstrom1588 vorago1654 well1654 gurges1664 gurge1667 swelchiea1688 vortex1704 tourbillion1712 whirly-pool1727 wheel-pit1828 sea-puss1839 turn-hole1851 suck-hole1909 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 94/2 [He] ranne into a whurlepyt, where he was drowned. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. iii. sig. Giii The deepest whirlepit of the rau'nous Seas. View more context for this quotation 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxix. xxxii. 734 Two of them [horses]..were swallowed up of the deepe hurlpits. a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. iv. 164 To escape the hands of his enemies, he ran into a whirlepit and his body was never found. 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 92 As if the Water had at once ingulph'd itself in a Chasm of the Earth, or sunk in a Whirlpit. figurative.1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 420 b To throwe vs headlong into the whourlepytte of euerlasting dampnation.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 143 England recovered out of the whirlepit of calamities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1564
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