Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHELK
WHELK, n.
- A wrinkle; inequality on the surface; protuberance; a pustule. [See Welk and Weal.]
- A shell named the Buccinum undatum, or trumpet-shell univalvular, spiral and gibbous, with an oval aperture ending in a short canal or gutter. – Linnæus. Cyc.
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