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Whelp may refer to: Whelping, the birthing of carnivorous mammals any young, carnivorous mammal; most commonly a puppy; Whelp (tidal bore) in an undular bore: the train of secondary waves behind the bore front; HMS Whelp: the name of one ship of the Royal Navy and of another which was planned but cancelled
Lyon's Whelp or Lion's Whelp is the name of a historical British ship, it is also found in the Bible in Genesis 49:9 “Judah is a lion’s whelp." Popular today, the name was given to a series of 16th-century naval ships, then in the 17th century to a fleet of ten full rigged pinnaces commissioned by the first Duke of Buckingham .
Several different species of large whelks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, on sale at a fish market in Japan A whelk at Miller's Point near Cape Town. Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species [1] with a swirling, tapered shell.
HMS Whelp was one of eight W-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Completed in 1944, the ship spent most of the war assigned to the Eastern and Pacific Fleets . She screened British aircraft carriers as their aircraft attacked targets in the Japanese-occupied Nicobar Islands , the Dutch East Indies , Formosa ...
Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning 'wolfhound whelp', 'young hound'. [1] [2] It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. [3]
She then addresses 'Eadwacer', who may be her husband or her captor, and she appears to identify their 'whelp' ('Uncerne earne hwelp' [our wretched whelp]), generally understood to metaphorically imply 'child' and possibly a reference to the child's being the 'whelp' of a man named 'Wulf'.
It was originally the a hound-whelp of the smith or the king of Iruaith (Ioruath, Hiruaidhe, etc.). Later on, Lugh's Failinis (var. Fer Mac) belonged to a foreign threesome from Iruaith that came to Ireland, and encountered by the Fíanna led by Fionn mac Cumhaill in the Fenian cycle.
The Lyon's Whelp and the "Talbot" left from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 11 May 1629 and arrived in Salem harbor 29 June 1629. The Higginson Fleet brought with them 115 head of cattle, as well as horses and mares, cows and oxen, 41 goats, some conies ( rabbits ), along with all the provisions needed for setting up households and surviving till they ...