Definitions for whelk

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Spelling: [hwelk, welk]
IPA: /ʰwɛlk, wɛlk/

Whelk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in whelk (ehklw).

Definitions for whelk

noun

  1. any of several large, spiral-shelled, marine gastropods of the family Buccinidae, especially Buccinum undatum, that is used for food in Europe.
  2. a pimple or pustule.

Origin of whelk

before 900; late Middle English, aspirated variant of Middle English welk, Old English weoloc

Examples for whelk

Like the whelk, he loves the bivalve mollusk, but does not bore for it.

And another young devil yelled, "The whelk's brought a pet with him!"

The whelk shell (Fig. 482) appears in the arms of Storey and Wilkinson.

The whelk had no idea how to teach any one, so the subject dropped.

As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.

But the fact is that the eggs of the whelk are just like those of the frog.

Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.

Now we will look at a shell-builder, the whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.

The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.

The whelk and Periwinkle are gathered in immense numbers, and are used by us for food.

Word Value for whelk
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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