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English
Pronunciation
Verb
welling
- present participle and gerund of well
Noun
welling (plural wellings)
- The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters:Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.
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