whelk

whelk
    n 1: large marine snail much used as food in Europe
    2: large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and
       intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
    v 1: gather whelk
    

Whelk \Whelk\ (hw[e^]lk), n. [OE. welk, wilk, AS. weoloc, weloc,
   wiloc. Cf. {Whilk}, and {Wilk}.] (Zool.)
   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.
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   {Whelk tingle}, a dog whelk. See under {Dog}.
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Whelk \Whelk\, n. [OE. whelke, dim. of whele. See {Wheal} a
   pustule.]
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   1. A papule; a pustule; acne. "His whelks white." --Chaucer.
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   2. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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   {Chin whelk} (Med.), sycosis.

   {Rosy whelk} (Med.), grog blossom.
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82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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