Welk vs Werk - What's the difference?

welk | werk |

As nouns the difference between welk and werk

is that welk is alternative form of lang=en while werk is obsolete form of lang=en.

is of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.

(en verb)

(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.

(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i.23:

As gentle Shepheard in sweete euentide, / When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west [...].

* Milton

The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.

(dialectal) to soak, .

(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.

To contract; to shorten.

* Spenser

Now sad winter welked hath the day.

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