A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Quhirll-pole,) Quhirlepole, Whirle-pule, n. [e.m.E. whyrlepole (1529), whirlepoole (1555); cf. Quhirl(l n. c, v. 1, also late OE hwyrfepól, wirfelmere.] A whirlpool. Cf. whirling-poole, Quhirlling ppl. adj. —1579, 1617 Despauter (1579) 58.
Vortex … est … contorta in se aqua, an quhirlepole, vel quidquid aliud similiter vertitur 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Vortex, a whirle-pule, or whirle-winde
