whelk

noun3

1. •
   Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
2. •
   A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
3. •
   (no longer used) Pimple.

   • his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs — 1599