Home
Manuscripts
Lexicon
About
By Image
By Work
Sign Up
Sign In
Email
Password
Remember me
Forgot your password?
maelstrom
maelstrom
n
Early modern Dutch 'whirlpool' <
malen
, to grind.
Famous whirlpool; cyclone in the Arctic Ocean on the west coast of Norway; sea vortex that destroys all vessels within a long radius.
Whirlwind; tornado.