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OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun whelk has 2 senses

whelk(n = noun.food) - large marine snail much used as food in Europe;

is a kind of

seafood

Derived form verb whelk₁

whelk(n = noun.animal) - large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell;

is a kind of

seasnail

is a member of buccinidae, family buccinidae

Derived form verb whelk₁

Verb whelk has 1 sense

whelk(v = verb.competition) - gather whelk;

is one way to

snail

Derived forms noun whelk₂, noun whelk₁

Sample sentence:
In the summer they like to go out and whelk

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CIDE DICTIONARY

whelk, n. [OE. welk, wilk, AS. weoloc, weloc, wiloc. Cf. Whilk, and Wilk.].

Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe. [1913 Webster]

Whelk tingle, a dog whelk. See under Dog.

whelk, n. [OE. whelke, dim. of whele. See Wheal a pustule.].

A papule; a pustule; acne. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. [1913 Webster]

Chin whelk (Med.), sycosis. -- Rosy whelk (Med.), grog blossom.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

whelk, n. any predatory marine gastropod mollusc of the family Buccinidae, esp. the edible kind of the genus Baccinum, having a spiral shell.

whelk, n. a pimple.

Etymology

OE hwylca f. hwelian suppurate

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THESAURUS

whelk

Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, blue point, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, clam, cold sore, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, langouste, lesion, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, periwinkle, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, prawn, pustule, quahog, rising, scab, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft chancre, soft-shell crab, sore, steamer, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whelp, whitlow, wound

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ROGET THESAURUS

whelk

Blemish

N blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism, flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.