Definition of "whaup" [whaup]

• Curlew (noun)

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• "The very birds seemed to shun these wastes, and no wonder, since they had an easy method of escaping from them; — at least I only heard the monotonous and plaintive cries of the lapwing and curlew, which my companions denominated the peasweep and whaup."
• "I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell, but, I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in the moss, as like a whaup"
• ""A brave lad, Hamish," says Dan; "he'll have listened to a 'the ghost and bogle and bawkin stories since he could creep, and yet he'll whistle himsel' safe ower the hill and be too proud tae run, an 'I'm thinkin' every muircock that craws, and every whaup that cries, out on the peat-hags, will be a bogle in his childish mind.""