welling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of well

plural wellings

1. The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.

   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.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32

   1 more example

   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.

   1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters

plural Wellings

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableA suburban area in the borough of Bexley, south-eastern Greater London, England, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ4676).
   2. countableuncountableA municipality in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
   3. countableuncountableA hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
   4. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.