whelkedwelkedadj.

Brit.

/wɛlkt/, U.S.

/(h)wɛlkt/

Forms: Also 1600s welkt, welk't, wealked.

Etymology: < whelk n.¹ + -ed suffix².

1. Formed like a whelk; twisted, convoluted, or ridged like the shell of a whelk.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical

spiral1556

whelkeda1560

screwish1570

helical1613

screwed1615

cochleary1646

cochleous1694

helicoid1704

cochleateda1728

cochleate1835

helicoidal1864

a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) x. sig. Ggj^v Him Triton combrous bare that galeon blew w^t whelkid shell [L. concha].

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 61^v With crooked welked [L. recurvis] hornes that inward still doe terue.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 71 Hornes, welk't [1623 wealk'd] and waued like the enridged sea.

a1616 R. Niccols Beggers Ape (1627) sig. A4 He with..shaggy beard And welked hornes so Satir-like appeard.

1876 A. S. Palmer Leaves from Word-hunter's Notebk. iv. 73 Look up at its [sc. the tree's] towering expanse of branches, observe its whelked and furrowed bole.

2. Marked with ridges on the flesh, waled, wealed: cf. whelk n.² 2 (Sometimes as past participle of an assumed verb *welk: see also below.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > weal

whelked1727

wealed1844

welted1855

waled1885

1727 J. Gay Fables I. xliv. 151 The smacking lash he smartly plies; His ribs all welk'd, with howling tone The puppy thus exprest his moan.

1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 34 235 Stripes from the fiend attain her heart, And the whelk'd bosom scar.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 291 The labour of their welked hands.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 176 My hand has been too much welk'd and hardened by practice of the bow.

3. In the following Scott uses welk as an intr. verb (? = rise in ridges) in the collocation welk and wave based on a misunderstanding of Shakespeare King Lear iv. vi. 71, which he echoes directly in quot. 1827.

ΚΠ

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. ii. 36 The..boatmen saw the horns of the monstrous leviathan welking and waving amidst wreaths of mist.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon I. viii. 331 Looking out upon the tumultuary sea of pikes, agitated by fifty thousand hands, as they rose and sunk, welked and waved.

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

单词	whelked
释义	whelkedwelkedadj. Brit. /wɛlkt/, U.S. /(h)wɛlkt/ Forms: Also 1600s welkt, welk't, wealked. Etymology: < whelk n.¹ + -ed suffix². 1. Formed like a whelk; twisted, convoluted, or ridged like the shell of a whelk. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical spiral1556 whelkeda1560 screwish1570 helical1613 screwed1615 cochleary1646 cochleous1694 helicoid1704 cochleateda1728 cochleate1835 helicoidal1864 a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) x. sig. Ggj^v Him Triton combrous bare that galeon blew w^t whelkid shell [L. concha]. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 61^v With crooked welked [L. recurvis] hornes that inward still doe terue. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 71 Hornes, welk't [1623 wealk'd] and waued like the enridged sea. View more context for this quotation a1616 R. Niccols Beggers Ape (1627) sig. A4 He with..shaggy beard And welked hornes so Satir-like appeard. 1876 A. S. Palmer Leaves from Word-hunter's Notebk. iv. 73 Look up at its [sc. the tree's] towering expanse of branches, observe its whelked and furrowed bole. 2. Marked with ridges on the flesh, waled, wealed: cf. whelk n.² 2 (Sometimes as past participle of an assumed verb welk: see also below.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > weal whelked1727 wealed1844 welted1855 waled1885 1727 J. Gay Fables* I. xliv. 151 The smacking lash he smartly plies; His ribs all welk'd, with howling tone The puppy thus exprest his moan. 1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 34 235 Stripes from the fiend attain her heart, And the whelk'd bosom scar. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 291 The labour of their welked hands. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 176 My hand has been too much welk'd and hardened by practice of the bow. 3. In the following Scott uses welk as an intr. verb (? = rise in ridges) in the collocation welk and wave based on a misunderstanding of Shakespeare King Lear iv. vi. 71, which he echoes directly in quot. 1827. ΚΠ 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. ii. 36 The..boatmen saw the horns of the monstrous leviathan welking and waving amidst wreaths of mist. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon I. viii. 331 Looking out upon the tumultuary sea of pikes, agitated by fifty thousand hands, as they rose and sunk, welked and waved. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1560
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