Definition of "whelp" []

• A young offspring of a mammal, such as a dog or wolf. (noun)
• A child; a youth. (noun)
• An impudent young fellow. (noun)
• A tooth of a sprocket wheel. (noun)
• Nautical Any of the ridges on the barrel of a windlass or capstan. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Item the first: For anybody who thinks they might want a Giant Ridiculous Dogge on their very own, my mom and her partner have a bitch in whelp, and are expecting puppies on the ground in January if all goes well."
• "At the word whelp, he cuffed him with his hammerlike fist, and Miner went down in a heap."
• "For the whelp is a piece of flesh little more than a mouse, having neither eyes nor ears, and having claws some-deal bourgeoning, and so this lump she licketh, and shapeth a whelp with licking ...."