whelk

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Ben Cooper has been a fisherman in Whitstable on the north Kent coast since 1997, and relies heavily on the common whelk, a type of sea snail.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025

The group has been building steel wire cages, filling them with rocks and whelk shells and positioning them in rows along the shoreline of Barnegat Bay.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022

Pre-Columbian painted animal sculptures, which attest, in their lifelike accuracy, to the sophistication and skill of their creators, were found at Key Marco, Fla., along with countless lightning whelk beads, pendants and ear buttons.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

As a fierce wind sent his hair flying around his face, he pointed out some of the little things he loved: a clump of pink sea thrift, a tiny whelk.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

He rins about in a wee motor-cawr, and wad speir the inside oot o' a whelk.'

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John