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Whelk

//wɛlk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
  2. 2
    Pimple. archaic

    "his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs"

  3. 3
    large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell wordnet
  4. 4
    A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
  5. 5
    large marine snail much used as food in Europe wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    gather whelk wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.

Etymology 2

From Middle English whelke, from Old English hwelca (“pustule, swelling”).

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