whirlpool

A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.

Something, such as a situation, that is confusing or tumultuous and is easy to be drawn into or difficult to get out of.

A bathtub or pool having jets of warm water that can be directed toward a body part as for therapeutic purposes.

A circular eddy or current in a river or the sea produced by the configuration of the channel, by meeting currents, by winds meeting tides, etc.

Some huge sea-monster of the whale kind; a whirl-whale; a whirl-about.

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.

A sea monster of the whale kind.

a swirling body of water.

turmoil, or agitated excitement

a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)