whelkn.¹

Brit.

/wɛlk/, U.S.

/(h)wɛlk/

Forms: α. Old English wioloc, wiloc, wyloc, (Middle English wilque), Middle English wylke, Middle English–1700s wilke, Middle English–1800s wilk. β. 1600s–1800s whilk. γ. Old English weoloc, weoluc, (Middle English welche), Middle English–1600s welke, Middle English–1600s welk, 1500s wealk. δ. Middle English–1500s whelke, 1600s– whelk. ε. Middle English wolke, Middle English–1500s walke.

Etymology: Old English wioloc, weoloc = West Flemish willok, wullok (whence Old French willo): of obscure origin. The unetymological spelling with wh begins in the 15th cent.

a. A marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Buccinum, having a turbinate shell, esp. B. undatum, common on the European and North American coasts, much used for food. Also applied, esp. with qualifying word, to molluscs of allied genera, as the hairy or ribbon whelks of the genera Fulgur and Sycotypus, the red whelk ( Chrysodomus antiquus), the rough whelk ( Urosalpinx cinerea), the dog whelk n. of the genus Nassa; see also quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > whelk, winkle, or cockle

whelkc725

cockOE

cockle1311

winkle1585

cuckolda1757

wink1851

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus or member of genus Buccinum (whelks)

whelkc725

periwinkle1530

wrinkle1589

Buccinum1601

sea-cornet1601

α.

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 865 Coccum, wioloc.

c875 Erfurt Gloss. 267 Coc[h]leas, uuylocas.

1312–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 10 In lempetis, Wylkes.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 642/6 Hec tortuga, wylke.

1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. Aaj^v Scallops of the baye, And Wilks, & Irchin eke.

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 174 At ȝour Hie Croce,..thair is bot crudis and milk, And at ȝour Trone bot cokill and wilk.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 180 One..hid himselfe in the Woods, and liued onely on Wilkes and land Crabs.

a1757 P. H. Bruce Memoirs (1782) xii. 424 Their shell-fish are conques, perriwinkles, coneys, sogers, wilkes, etc.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 321 Divers specimens of a species of snail (wilks, we think they are called).

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 232 Searching for..wilks, periwinkles, and other shellfish.

β. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 182 Cochleæ, Sea-Snails, Whilks, or Porwinkles, & Periwinkles.1713 Tyldesley Diary (1873) 79 Cos Tom Carus and his lady sup^d with us on whilkes in the shell.1773 S. Johnson Let. 30 Sept. (1992) II. 93 Muscles and whilks in their natural state.1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 480 Whilk—or Whelk, the fish of the common cockle.γ. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. i. 26 Her beoð swyþe genihtsume weolocas, of þam bið geweorht se weolocreada tælgh.c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 293/25 Coclea, weoluc.c1170 Marie de France Fables xii. 3 Une welke [v.rr. welche, wilque] truva entiere.1290 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 352 Pro ij lampred' iij^s pro welkes vi^d.13.. Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 244 Oysters, welkes, muskeles ou soel.1339 Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 23/1 De anguillis, ostriis, conchiris, welkes, floundris et aliis quibuscunque minutis piscibus venalibus.a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 17 Take welkes and wasshe fayre.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 209 Shelles of greate welkes.1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. D1^v There growen the Scallop, Cockle, Welke, and Oyster.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §7. 129. δ. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Whelke, concha.1583 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 361 For mendinge of iiij whelkes shelles and Couloringe them.1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 164 Perwinckles or Whelks, are nothing but sea-snails, feeding upon the finest mud of the shore and the best weeds.?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 77 Limington Bottle Whelk.1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 202 Strombus Lucifer, Spiked Whelk.1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 503 The whelks, clams,..and occasionally the crabs, are used by the fishermen as bait for their white fish lines.1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 19 By way of supper I was initiated into the mysteries of ‘whelks’.ε. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 23 Take Walkys an sethe in Ale.1444 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 26, No. 1) Vendidit in mercato pisces fetentes, viz. wolkis.1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1724 A walke, or wrinkle, turbo.

†b. The shell of this mollusc, or a representation of it. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > animal > specific

white horse1273

lintworm1423

serpentinec1440

horsec1540

wolf1562

whelk?1578

snake1579

snake-head1865

singerie1920

whelk-shellc725

whelk?1578

roaring buckie1808

roary buckie1827

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 72 Tunneyz, Conchs & wealks: all engrauen by exquisit deuize & skyll.

1605 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Wks. (1616) 894 Torch-bearers..all hauing their lights burning out of whelks, or murex shells.

†c. A structure resembling a whelk-shell; a testudo. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed

sow1297

mantel1357

snail1408

vinet1408

whelk1408

circlec1440

barbed-cat1489

mantle1489

mantlet1524

vine1565

tortoise1569

sow-guard1582

penthouse1600

penticle1600

target-roof1601

vinea1601

fence-roof1609

testudo1609

cat-house1614

vineyard1650

tortoiseshell1726

manta1829

cat1833

ram-house1850

tortoise-roof1855

bear1865

1408–9 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. iv. xiv. (Roy MS. 18 A. xii) lf. 105 The gynne that is clepede the snayle or the welke.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

whelk-boat n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels fishing for shellfish or crustaceans

oyster boat1419

whelk-boat1419

dredger1600

lobster-boat1777

oyster scow1824

oysterer1828

shrimper1851

pungy1852

shrimp-boat1872

Morecambe Bay shrimper1874

crabber1883

skillinger1933

Morecambe Bay prawner1935

1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 343 Item, quantum dabit welkbot de v tandles.

1900 Daily News 17 Aug. 7/1 Two fishermen went off in a whelk boat.

whelk-man n.

ΚΠ

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 163/2 The whelkmen, who are the biggest rogues in Billingsgate.

whelk-shell n.

ΘΚΠ

whelk-shellc725

whelk?1578

roaring buckie1808

roary buckie1827

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 530 Conquilium, wiloc scel.

c1440 Astron. Cal. (Ashm. 391) Capricorne þat is þe signe of a goot in a welke shelle.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 131 'Tis usual to give Drink to Children that have the Chin-Cough, out of a Wilk-shell.

1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 71 The hermit crab..which always lives in empty whelk shells.

whelk-snail n.

ΚΠ

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 131 The Wilk-Snail winding, from the Mouth towards the right Hand.

whelk-tribe n.

ΚΠ

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 279 The Buccinidan or Whelk tribe.

whelk-like adj.

ΚΠ

1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 180 A whelk-like dentition.

whelk-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 185 One group..in which the shell is thin and whelk-shaped.

C2.

whelk-pot n. see pot n.¹ 5b.

ΚΠ

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 10 Set of Whelk Pots with Gear.

whelk-stall n. a stall at which whelks are sold; frequently in to be unable to run a whelk stall and variants, to be incompetent, esp. in business.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink

shamblec1305

flesh-stall14..

fisher-stall1572

fish-stall1818

whelk-stall1842

coffee stall1850

poultry stall1852

peanut stand1853

raw bar1914

doggery1930

pannam1972

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > be unable to do something [verb (intransitive)] > be incapable or incompetent

to be unable to run a whelk stall1894

not to be able (to do a thing) for toffee1914

1842 Punch 3 74/2 The adjacent whelk-stall.

1894 J. Burns in South-Western Star 13 Jan. 3/4 From whom am I to take my marching orders? From men who fancy they are Admirable Crichtons,..but who have not got sufficient brains and ability to run a whelk stall?

1928 ‘N. Shute’ So Disdained iv. 159 If you try to run him as a manager as well, then your luck'll be out... He couldn't run a whelk stall to make it pay.

1960 C. Storr Marianne & Mark iii. 42 The beaches and the whelk stalls.

1965 O. Manning Friends & Heroes xiv. 148 I said we were all disgusted at the way the School had gone down; and I said things would be no better under Callard. I said Callard couldn't run a whelk-stall.

1966 Hansard Commons 22 Nov. 1283 The great majority of hon. Gentlemen opposite have not the qualifications to run a whelk stall profitably.

1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 25 Which should she pick?..vain Albert from the whelk stall?

1981 Financial Times 1 Apr. 15/2 None of them [sc. the 364 economists] has had enough practical experience to run the proverbial whelk stall.

whelk-tingle n. = tingle n.³

ΘΚΠ

Nassa1834

whelk-tingle1849

dog whelk1856

whelk-tingle1849

tingle1929

whelk-tingle1849

tingle1929

whelk-tingle1849

tingle1929

1849 E. Forbes & S. Hanley in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 47 243 Whelks, called by the fishermen whelk-tingle, or sting-winkle,—are also said to do much damage,—perforate the shells with small holes, selecting especially those of from one to two years' growth.

1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 The dog-whelk or ‘whelk tingle’.

1959 Times 25 Aug. 5/6 A survey of the damage done on English oyster beds by the American whelk tingle..has just been concluded.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

whelkn.²

Brit.

/wɛlk/, U.S.

/(h)wɛlk/

Forms: Old English hwylca, Middle English–1600s whelke, Middle English qwælke, Middle English–1500s welke, 1500s whealke, 1700s–1800s welk, 1800s dialect w(h)ilk, Middle English– whelk.

Etymology: Late Old English (West Saxon) hwylca , probably for *hwelca (compare late hwylp for hwelp ), < hwelian wheal v.¹ For the formation compare swelca swelling, < swellan to swell.

1. A pustule, pimple; = wheal n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule

bladderc1000

whelkc1000

pustulea1398

pusha1400

pustulation?a1425

whealc1440

pust1527

burble1555

quat1597

pouk1601

bube1608

bub1612

crystal1661

blotch1669

epinyctis1676

phlyzacium1693

varus1756

stone-pock1818

whey-worm1828

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 161/17 Uarix, cwydele, uel hwylca.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lxiv. s j b/2 In the face ben redde pymples & whelkes, out of whom ofte renne blood & matere.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 241 Obtolmia is clepid a whit' welke or a reed poynt'.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 634 Ne oynement. that wolde clense and byte That hym myghte helpen of his whelkes white.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xiv. 56 This is the lawe of al lepre..and of litle whelkis [1382 bleynes; L. papularum] brekynge out.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lix^v Whelkes or bladders on the bodye.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iii. vi. 106 His face is full of whelkes and knubs, And pumples.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 237 If the patient sicke of the Collicke haue certaine small whelks or pushes arising vpon his belly.

1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 398 Purple colour spots, or else little whelks arise.

1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. 2nd Ser. 240 Those little gatherings which occur on the eye-lids of children, locally called ‘wilks’.

in combination.1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 72/2 Mordella,..a whelke flie, or blister flie.

2. Used by confusion for weal n.², wale n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > mark of blow > weal

walea1100

stripec1440

yedderc1440

scrat1542

wipe1594

whelka1761

wheal1811

weal1821

wealing1902

a1761 J. Cawthorn Poems (1771) 196 I'll lay thee, miscreant! on my knee, And print such welks thy naked seat on.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 894 And on their flanks and shoulders, red The whelks arose.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Welk, welt..to give a sound beating, which is likely to raise weals, welks, or welts.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 47 A bloody whelk Rose where the golden sceptre fell.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	whelk
释义	whelkn.¹ Brit. /wɛlk/, U.S. /(h)wɛlk/ Forms: α. Old English wioloc, wiloc, wyloc, (Middle English wilque), Middle English wylke, Middle English–1700s wilke, Middle English–1800s wilk. β. 1600s–1800s whilk. γ. Old English weoloc, weoluc, (Middle English welche), Middle English–1600s welke, Middle English–1600s welk, 1500s wealk. δ. Middle English–1500s whelke, 1600s– whelk. ε. Middle English wolke, Middle English–1500s walke. Etymology: Old English wioloc, weoloc = West Flemish willok, wullok (whence Old French willo): of obscure origin. The unetymological spelling with wh begins in the 15th cent. a. A marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Buccinum, having a turbinate shell, esp. B. undatum, common on the European and North American coasts, much used for food. Also applied, esp. with qualifying word, to molluscs of allied genera, as the hairy or ribbon whelks of the genera Fulgur and Sycotypus, the red whelk ( Chrysodomus antiquus), the rough whelk ( Urosalpinx cinerea), the dog whelk n. of the genus Nassa; see also quots. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > whelk, winkle, or cockle whelkc725 cockOE cockle1311 winkle1585 cuckolda1757 wink1851 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus or member of genus Buccinum (whelks) whelkc725 periwinkle1530 wrinkle1589 Buccinum1601 sea-cornet1601 α. c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 865 Coccum, wioloc. c875 Erfurt Gloss. 267 Coc[h]leas, uuylocas. 1312–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 10 In lempetis, Wylkes. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 642/6 Hec tortuga, wylke. 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. Aaj^v Scallops of the baye, And Wilks, & Irchin eke. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 174 At ȝour Hie Croce,..thair is bot crudis and milk, And at ȝour Trone bot cokill and wilk. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 180 One..hid himselfe in the Woods, and liued onely on Wilkes and land Crabs. a1757 P. H. Bruce Memoirs (1782) xii. 424 Their shell-fish are conques, perriwinkles, coneys, sogers, wilkes, etc. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 321 Divers specimens of a species of snail (wilks, we think they are called). 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 232 Searching for..wilks, periwinkles, and other shellfish. β. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 182 Cochleæ, Sea-Snails, Whilks, or Porwinkles, & Periwinkles.1713 Tyldesley Diary (1873) 79 Cos Tom Carus and his lady sup^d with us on whilkes in the shell.1773 S. Johnson Let. 30 Sept. (1992) II. 93 Muscles and whilks in their natural state.1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 480 Whilk—or Whelk, the fish of the common cockle.γ. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. i. 26 Her beoð swyþe genihtsume weolocas, of þam bið geweorht se weolocreada tælgh.c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 293/25 Coclea, weoluc.c1170 Marie de France Fables xii. 3 Une welke [v.rr. welche, wilque] truva entiere.1290 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 352 Pro ij lampred' iij^s pro welkes vi^d.13.. Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 244 Oysters, welkes, muskeles ou soel.1339 Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 23/1 De anguillis, ostriis, conchiris, welkes, floundris et aliis quibuscunque minutis piscibus venalibus.a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 17 Take welkes and wasshe fayre.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 209 Shelles of greate welkes.1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. D1^v There growen the Scallop, Cockle, Welke, and Oyster.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §7. 129. δ. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Whelke, concha.1583 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 361 For mendinge of iiij whelkes shelles and Couloringe them.1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 164 Perwinckles or Whelks, are nothing but sea-snails, feeding upon the finest mud of the shore and the best weeds.?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 77 Limington Bottle Whelk.1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 202 Strombus Lucifer, Spiked Whelk.1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 503 The whelks, clams,..and occasionally the crabs, are used by the fishermen as bait for their white fish lines.1874 A. H. Markham Whaling Cruise ii. 19 By way of supper I was initiated into the mysteries of ‘whelks’.ε. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 23 Take Walkys an sethe in Ale.1444 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 26, No. 1) Vendidit in mercato pisces fetentes, viz. wolkis.1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1724 A walke, or wrinkle, turbo. †b. The shell of this mollusc, or a representation of it. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > animal > specific white horse1273 lintworm1423 serpentinec1440 horsec1540 wolf1562 whelk?1578 snake1579 snake-head1865 singerie1920 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > shell of whelk whelk-shellc725 whelk?1578 roaring buckie1808 roary buckie1827 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 72 Tunneyz, Conchs & wealks: all engrauen by exquisit deuize & skyll. 1605 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Wks. (1616) 894 Torch-bearers..all hauing their lights burning out of whelks, or murex shells. †c. A structure resembling a whelk-shell; a testudo. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 1408–9 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. iv. xiv. (Roy MS. 18 A. xii) lf. 105 The gynne that is clepede the snayle or the welke. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. whelk-boat n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels fishing for shellfish or crustaceans oyster boat1419 whelk-boat1419 dredger1600 lobster-boat1777 oyster scow1824 oysterer1828 shrimper1851 pungy1852 shrimp-boat1872 Morecambe Bay shrimper1874 crabber1883 skillinger1933 Morecambe Bay prawner1935 1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 343 Item, quantum dabit welkbot de v tandles. 1900 Daily News 17 Aug. 7/1 Two fishermen went off in a whelk boat. whelk-man n. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 163/2 The whelkmen, who are the biggest rogues in Billingsgate. whelk-shell n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > shell of whelk whelk-shellc725 whelk?1578 roaring buckie1808 roary buckie1827 c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 530 Conquilium, wiloc scel. c1440 Astron. Cal. (Ashm. 391) Capricorne þat is þe signe of a goot in a welke shelle. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 131 'Tis usual to give Drink to Children that have the Chin-Cough, out of a Wilk-shell. 1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 71 The hermit crab..which always lives in empty whelk shells. whelk-snail n. ΚΠ 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 131 The Wilk-Snail winding, from the Mouth towards the right Hand. whelk-tribe n. ΚΠ 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 279 The Buccinidan or Whelk tribe. b. whelk-like adj. ΚΠ 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 180 A whelk-like dentition. whelk-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 185 One group..in which the shell is thin and whelk-shaped. C2. whelk-pot n. see pot n.¹ 5b. ΚΠ 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 10 Set of Whelk Pots with Gear. whelk-stall n. a stall at which whelks are sold; frequently in to be unable to run a whelk stall and variants, to be incompetent, esp. in business. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink shamblec1305 flesh-stall14.. fisher-stall1572 fish-stall1818 whelk-stall1842 coffee stall1850 poultry stall1852 peanut stand1853 raw bar1914 doggery1930 pannam1972 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > be unable to do something [verb (intransitive)] > be incapable or incompetent to be unable to run a whelk stall1894 not to be able (to do a thing) for toffee1914 1842 Punch 3 74/2 The adjacent whelk-stall. 1894 J. Burns in South-Western Star 13 Jan. 3/4 From whom am I to take my marching orders? From men who fancy they are Admirable Crichtons,..but who have not got sufficient brains and ability to run a whelk stall? 1928 ‘N. Shute’ So Disdained iv. 159 If you try to run him as a manager as well, then your luck'll be out... He couldn't run a whelk stall to make it pay. 1960 C. Storr Marianne & Mark iii. 42 The beaches and the whelk stalls. 1965 O. Manning Friends & Heroes xiv. 148 I said we were all disgusted at the way the School had gone down; and I said things would be no better under Callard. I said Callard couldn't run a whelk-stall. 1966 Hansard Commons 22 Nov. 1283 The great majority of hon. Gentlemen opposite have not the qualifications to run a whelk stall profitably. 1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 25 Which should she pick?..vain Albert from the whelk stall? 1981 Financial Times 1 Apr. 15/2 None of them [sc. the 364 economists] has had enough practical experience to run the proverbial whelk stall. whelk-tingle n. = tingle n.³ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Nassariidae > member of genus Nassarius Nassa1834 whelk-tingle1849 dog whelk1856 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > nucella lapillus whelk-tingle1849 tingle1929 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > ocenebra erinacea whelk-tingle1849 tingle1929 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > uros alpinix cinera whelk-tingle1849 tingle1929 1849 E. Forbes & S. Hanley in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 47 243 Whelks, called by the fishermen whelk-tingle, or sting-winkle,—are also said to do much damage,—perforate the shells with small holes, selecting especially those of from one to two years' growth. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 The dog-whelk or ‘whelk tingle’. 1959 Times 25 Aug. 5/6 A survey of the damage done on English oyster beds by the American whelk tingle..has just been concluded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). whelkn.² Brit. /wɛlk/, U.S. /(h)wɛlk/ Forms: Old English hwylca, Middle English–1600s whelke, Middle English qwælke, Middle English–1500s welke, 1500s whealke, 1700s–1800s welk, 1800s dialect w(h)ilk, Middle English– whelk. Etymology: Late Old English (West Saxon) hwylca , probably for hwelca (compare late hwylp* for hwelp ), < hwelian wheal v.¹ For the formation compare swelca swelling, < swellan to swell. 1. A pustule, pimple; = wheal n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule bladderc1000 whelkc1000 pustulea1398 pusha1400 pustulation?a1425 whealc1440 pust1527 burble1555 quat1597 pouk1601 bube1608 bub1612 crystal1661 blotch1669 epinyctis1676 phlyzacium1693 varus1756 stone-pock1818 whey-worm1828 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 161/17 Uarix, cwydele, uel hwylca. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lxiv. s j b/2 In the face ben redde pymples & whelkes, out of whom ofte renne blood & matere. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 241 Obtolmia is clepid a whit' welke or a reed poynt'. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 634 Ne oynement. that wolde clense and byte That hym myghte helpen of his whelkes white. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xiv. 56 This is the lawe of al lepre..and of litle whelkis [1382 bleynes; L. papularum] brekynge out. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. f. lix^v Whelkes or bladders on the bodye. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iii. vi. 106 His face is full of whelkes and knubs, And pumples. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 237 If the patient sicke of the Collicke haue certaine small whelks or pushes arising vpon his belly. 1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 398 Purple colour spots, or else little whelks arise. 1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. 2nd Ser. 240 Those little gatherings which occur on the eye-lids of children, locally called ‘wilks’. in combination.1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 72/2 Mordella,..a whelke flie, or blister flie. 2. Used by confusion for weal n.², wale n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > mark of blow > weal walea1100 stripec1440 yedderc1440 scrat1542 wipe1594 whelka1761 wheal1811 weal1821 wealing1902 a1761 J. Cawthorn Poems (1771) 196 I'll lay thee, miscreant! on my knee, And print such welks thy naked seat on. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 894 And on their flanks and shoulders, red The whelks arose. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Welk, welt..to give a sound beating, which is likely to raise weals, welks, or welts. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 47 A bloody whelk Rose where the golden sceptre fell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c725n.²c1000
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