What is the meaning of Whelp?
A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
An insolent youth; a mere child.
A kind of ship.
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
To give birth.
Alternative form of welp (“well”).
A whelp (a puppy or a baby dog)
A whelp (the young of other animals, especially canids and felids)
A whelp (as an insulting term)
An unknown kind of mechanical machine or system.
↑ “whelp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 September 2018.
↑ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218), The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., , § 34, page 59.
↑ Zettersten, Arne (1965), “hwelp (sb.)”, in Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of the Ancrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English; 34), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, →OCLC, page 77.
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