whelk

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It found the boat had been modified and had 4.6 tonnes of whelks and whelk pots on board.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2023

Tiny baby oysters, called spat, are attached to whelk shells and placed in the bay near the existing cages to further stabilize the shoreline.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022

In the 1990s, the population of horseshoe crabs along the East Coast was decimated by fishermen who used them as bait to catch eel and corner the lucrative market for whelk or conch.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

Were I running a modestly sized whelk stall, let alone the White House, the very last person I would allow behind the scenes to observe and report on its secrets would be Michael Wolff.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2018

Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader