"whelming" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of whelm"
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  "word": "whelming"
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      "form": "whelmings",
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, […]",
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        "Something that covers or submerges."
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  "word": "whelming"
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  "pos": "verb",
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