† whirlwatern.
Obsolete.
A waterspout.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > water-spout or sea-storm
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cataract1555
spout1555
hurricano1608
waterspout1625
whirlwater1626
whirl-spout1737
vortex1769
typhon1774
whirl-pillar1850
1626 J. Mead Let. 24 June in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 114 I hear of a whirlwater upon the Thames.
1626 J. Mead Let. 24 June in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 114 The breaking..of the whirlwater, or, as some call it, the water-pillar.
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