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.

(transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.

Alternative form of welp (“well”)

A surname from Irish.

Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

(archaic) Pimple / A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

(transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. / (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. / (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.

(poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.

A carnivorous European mollusc, Nucella lapillus, found on rocky coasts.

plural of whelp