walm
Pronunciations (2)
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/wɔːm/
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/wɑ(ː)m/
Verb
To roll; to spout; to boil up.
Usage- Obsolete
- Examples
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The waters boile, and walme to our desire.
It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.
More examples (1)
[…] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, and the same not quiet and still, but turbulent and oftentimes boiling and walming upward, out of which there might be heard innumerable roarings and groanings of beasts, cries and wrawlings of an infinite number of children, […]
Word forms
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