welling

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

welling

1. present participle and gerund of well

welling (plural wellings)

1. 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.

• downwelling
• upwelling