whelk

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“How about the Whelk? I think I would like to be the Whelk.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Perhaps you have seen the egg-bundle of the Whelk.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

They swell in the water, until the yellowish bundle is three times as large as the Whelk that laid it.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

Whelk, hwelk, n. a popular name for a number of marine Gasteropods, especially applied to species of Buccinum common on the coasts of northern seas.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The Whelk and Periwinkle are gathered in immense numbers, and are used by us for food.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader