From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Whelp \Whelp\, noun [AS. hwelp; akin to D. welp, G. & OHG. welf, Icel. hvelpr, Dan. hvalp, Sw. valp.]
1. One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps. ''A bear robbed of her whelps.'' --2 Sam. xvii. 8.
2. A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance. --Addison.
3. (Naut.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
4. One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Whelp \Whelp\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Whelped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whelping}.] To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Whelp \Whelp\, verb (used with an object) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Unless she had whelped it herself, she could not have loved a thing better. --B. Jonson.
Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme? --Young.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf [syn: {pup}]
verb
1: birth; "the dog whelped" [syn: {pup}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "whelp": Seeing Eye dog, animal, bandog, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beast, birdling, bitch, bowwow, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, calf, calve, canine, cast, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, cur, dog, dogie, drop, duckling, fancy dog, farrow, fawn, fellow, fledgling, foal, fryer, give birth, gosling, guide dog, gyp, have, have a baby, have young, hobbledehoy, hound, hyena, insect, kennel, kid, kit, kitten, labor, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, lap dog, lie in, litter, manchild, master, mongrel, muchacho, nest, nestling, pack of dogs, pig, piglet, pigling, polecat, polliwog, pooch, pullet, pup, puppy, reptile, schoolboy, serpent, sheep dog, shoat, show dog, skunk, sled dog, slut, snake, sonny, sonny boy, swine, tadpole, throw, toy dog, travail, varmint, vermin, viper, wale, watchdog, weal, weaner, welt, whelk, working dog, worm, yean, yeanling, young man, youth
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