what is whelk ?
Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed. On the Seashore R. Cadwallader Smith. The whelk, however, is a clever burglar; he knows how to make a way into the hardest of shelly houses. The whelk shell (Fig. 482) appears in the arms of Storey and Wilkinson. The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster. A genus of mollusks with light horn colored shells, and inhabiting the cold waters of the Arctic seas, is the Buccinum, or whelk.