Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whelk

2 senses of whelk

Sense 1
whelk -- (large marine snail much used as food in Europe)
       => seafood -- (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Sense 2
whelk -- (large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell)
       => seasnail -- (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb whelk

1 sense of whelk

Sense 1
whelk -- (gather whelk)
       => snail -- (gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer")