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Webster 1913 Edition


Whilk

Whilk

,
Noun.
[See
Whelk
a mollusk.]
1.
(Zool.)
A kind of mollusk, a whelk.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
(Zool.)
The scoter.
[Prov. Eng.]

Whilk

,
p
ron.
Which.
[Obs. or Scot.]
☞ Whilk is sometimes used in Chaucer to represent the Northern dialect.

Webster 1828 Edition


Whilk

WHILK

,
Noun.
A shell. [See Whelk.]