Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maelstrom"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maelstrom \Mael"strom\, n. [Norw., a whirlpool.]
1. A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
2. Also Fig.; as, a maelstrom of vice.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maelstrom
n : a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting
of conflicting tides) [syn: {whirlpool}, {vortex}]
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