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Whelp vs Whelm - What's the difference?

whelp | whelm |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between whelp and whelm

is that whelp is (obsolete) a kind of ship while whelm is (obsolete) to throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

As verbs the difference between whelp and whelm

is that whelp is (ambitransitive) to give birth while whelm is to cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.

As a noun whelp

is 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

English

Noun

(en 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.
  • (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
  • * Addison
    • That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
  • (obsolete) A kind of ship.
  • One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
  • A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).

    • Derived terms

    * fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling) * (Newfoundland) (l) * whelpling * wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelp

    See also

    * Guelf, Guelph * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To give birth.
    • The bitch whelped .
    The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.

    References

    whelm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.
  • * 1602 , '', Act 2, Scene 2, 1813, ''The Plays of William Shakespeare , Volume 5: Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, page 90,
    • Give fire; she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
  • * 1716 , , ''The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland , page 341,
    • Then ?hall the pa??enger too late deplore / The whelming billow and the faithless oar.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1803 , year_published=2008 , edition= , editor= , author=Earsmus Darwin , title=The Temple of Nature , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Deep-whelm?d beneath, in vast sepulchral caves, / Oblivion dwells amid unlabell?d graves; }}
  • * 1998', Madelyn Roeder Camrud, '' Under the '''Whelming Tide: The 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North .
  • To overcome with emotion.
  • * 1903 , , Hymn for Vespers, Sunday'', ''Verses on Various Occasions'', 1989, ''Prayers, Verses, and Devotions , page 638,
    • Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime / Wreck us with life in view;
  • (obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
  • * 1708 , John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry , 2nd Edition, page 253,
    • Balls made of Hor?e-dung and laid in a Room will do the ?ame if they are new made; by which means you may whelm ?ome things over them and keep them there.

    Derived terms

    * overwhelm * underwhelm

    References

    (Webster)