Usually means: Sea snail with spiral shell.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word whelk:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. whelk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whelk: Merriam-Webster
  3. whelk, whelk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whelk, whelk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whelk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whelk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whelk, whelk: Wordnik
  8. whelk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whelk: Wiktionary
  10. whelk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whelk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whelk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whelk: Dictionary.com
  14. whelk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Whelk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whelk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whelk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whelk: Rhymezone
  19. Whelk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whelk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WHELK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. whelk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. whelk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. whelk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whelk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. whelk: Medical dictionary
  4. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHELK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whelk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whelk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See whelks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
noun:  (archaic) Pimple.
noun:  A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

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