Definition of "whelked" []

• Having whelks; whelky. (adjective)

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• "Some monstrous creature at the top of the cliff, a creature whose eyes are 'two full moons' and whose face possesses 'a thousand noses,/Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea, 'has encouraged Gloucester to jump."
• "Belvidere, -- one of Irving's a "shingle palaces," painted in imitation of stone, -- a great wooden sham, "whelked and horned" with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of the many-beaded beast of the Apocalypse."