Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed like a whelk; hence, marked or covered with ridges like those of a whelk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having whelks; whelky.
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- adjective Having
whelks ;whelky .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some monstrous creature at the top of the cliff, a creature whose eyes are 'two full moons' and whose face possesses 'a thousand noses,/Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea, 'has encouraged Gloucester to jump.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Belvidere, -- one of Irving's a "shingle palaces," painted in imitation of stone, -- a great wooden sham, "whelked and horned" with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of the many-beaded beast of the Apocalypse.
The Inner Life, Part 3, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Belvidere, -- one of Irving's a "shingle palaces," painted in imitation of stone, -- a great wooden sham, "whelked and horned" with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of the many-beaded beast of the Apocalypse.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Belvidere, -- one of Irving's a "shingle palaces," painted in imitation of stone, -- a great wooden sham, "whelked and horned" with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of the many-beaded beast of the Apocalypse.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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