WHELM

PRONUNCIATION: (hwelm, welm)

MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To submerge.
2. To overcome; overwhelm.
noun: An overwhelming or engulfing quantity of something.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hwelman. Earliest documented use: verb 1300, noun 1576.
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CHELM - literary middle-European city inhabited by innocent but well meaning dummies

WHY ELM? - Can't anywhere else be the site of nightmares?

WHEEL M - the thirteenth part of a complicated gadget drawn by Rube Goldberg