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whelk [ welk, hwelk ] (plural whelk or whelks)


noun 
Definition:
 
sea mollusk: an invertebrate sea animal with a conical spiraling shell. Some kinds of whelk are edible. Family Buccinidae.

[ Old English weoloc, altered perhaps by association with whelk2]
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