Definition of "whelm" in Englisch

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.

4. (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.

noun

1. (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.

   • the whelm of the tide

2. A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.