Associations to the word «Whelp»
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Wiktionary
WHELP, noun. A young offspring of a 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.
WHELP, noun. (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
WHELP, noun. (obsolete) A kind of ship.
WHELP, noun. One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
WHELP, noun. A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).
WHELP, verb. (ambitransitive) (of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.
Dictionary definition
WHELP, noun. Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf.
WHELP, verb. Birth; "the dog whelped".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.