Now dial. The roe of a fish.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum, 19. Take þo kelkes of fysshe anon, And þo lyver of þo fysshe.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 201/1. Kelkys (A. kellys) of fyschis, lactes.

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1655.  Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 238. Cods have a Bladder in them full of Eggs or Spawn, which the northern Men call the Kelk.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Kelks, the roe or spawn of fish.

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  Kelk, dial. var. of KECK, KEX.

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1880.  in Britten & Holland, Plant-n.

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