\Whirl"pool`\, n.
1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water
   where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a
   depression or cavity in the center, into which floating
   objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or
   less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular
   channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or
   the like.
2. A sea monster of the whale kind. [Obs.] --Spenser.
         The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest
         fishes that are; among which the whales and
         whirlpools, called ``bal[ae]n[ae],'' take up in
         length as much as four . . . arpents of land.
                                               --Holland.