Definitions from Wiktionary (whelm)

▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
▸ noun:  (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
▸ noun:  A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.

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