welt'ring

And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel keep.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Him o'er whose welt'ring corse the wild waves roar,

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806

All welt'ring in their gore -- haste! haste with me.

The Female Gamester A Tragedy Gorges Edmond Howard 1750

It would be needless to repeat the Lamentations of a most tenderly loving Father, to find his only Child welt'ring in her Blood, and breathing her last; or those which Mulyzeden made, when he reflected he had been the Cause, tho 'an innocent one: You may easily imagine they were suitable to the Occasion, and to the Characters of the Persons concern'd it.

Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel 1725

Fall'n from his high eflatCj And welt'ring in his bioocL Deferted at his utttift need.

Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining 1785

He foon difcerns; and welt'ring by his fide One next himfclf in powV, and next in crime,

Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books 1784

Whilst in their harbours they Like batten'd monsters welt'ring lay:

Titus and Berenice, a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre. With a farce called the Cheats of Scapin 1677