Usually means: Sea snails, often large, edible.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (whelk)

noun:  Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
noun:  (archaic) Pimple.
noun:  A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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