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whirlpit

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Middle English whirl-pit

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Middle English · inherited fromwhirl-pit
English todaywhirlpit

From Middle English whirl-pit, whorllepyte, equivalent to whirl + pit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.