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welkus [ME welke < AS weoloc], whelk (Buccinum). 1267 coquina, in m alleciis v s. vj d. ‥ in xij welekis ij s. (Ac. Roger Leyburn) EHR LIV 211; c1287 A. C. vendit wylcos mixtos de bonis et malis et assuetus est talia facere Leet Norw. 10; 1289 in j salmone, xx d., in welk', xij d. Ac. Swinfield 43; 1305 in volk' et capr' marium, xij d. ‥ in volk' et sturg', xvj d. KR Ac 309/10 m. 1; 1306 in wolk' et smelt', xiij d. Ib. 309/10 m. 8; 1336 in welkys empt' pro pitancia conventus in die s. Witburge Sacr. Ely II 77; de lupis aquaticis grossis ‥ de wilkis, v sek', de grossis anguillis, v estik' Whittlesey Cont. 233; 1419 nullus debet portare welkes coctos ad vendendum; et qui portat illos est in misericordia, et amittet ~os suos MGL I 377; marinis piscibus, utpote polipis, ostreis, helcis, kilionibus, turbotis ‥ [flumina] utiliora Bower II 2.

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