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yelk

/jɛlk/

yelk is the obsolete form of yolk.

Meaning of yolk

Noun

yolk (countable and uncountable, plural yolks)

  1. The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
    • To make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk.
  2. The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
    • Wool-growers appear to entertain different opinions in regard to the effect which yolk has on the value of the fleece. Some seem to suppose that the aggregate amount which they receive for their wool is increased from the greater weight which it possesses by being charged with this substance[…]1846, The Cultivator, page 270

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Forms of yelk

pluralyelks

Words that rhyme with yelk

Questions about yelk

What is yelk the obsolete form of?
Yelk is the obsolete form of yolk.
How do you pronounce yelk?
Yelk is pronounced /jɛlk/.

Words near yelk in the dictionary

  1. Yelford
  2. Yelgun
  3. Yelisei
  4. Yelisey
  5. Yelizaveta
  6. yelk
  7. yelkouan shearwater
  8. yelkouan shearwaters
  9. yelks
  10. yell
  11. yell at a cloud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yelk (page history and authors); yolk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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