Definition of "whaups" [whaups]

• Plural form of whaup. (noun)

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• "I believe, in my soul, you would run with a piece of the egg-shell on your head like the curlews, which (I would we were after them again) we used to call whaups in the"
• "Scotland — that I can never deny — if I could only be buried in the hills, under the heather and a table tombstone like the martyrs, where the whaups and plovers are crying!"
• "Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,"