kelkn.
Now dialect.
The roe of a fish.
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a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 19 Take þo kelkes of fysshe anon, And þo lyver of þo fysshe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 201/1 Kelkys (A. kellys) of fyschis, lactes.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 148 Cods have a bladder in them full of eggs or spawne, which the Northern men call the kelk.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 95 Kelks, the roe or spawn of fish.
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