Whelp

1. n. One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
2. n. One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion’s whelps.
3. n. A child; a youth; — jocosely or in contempt.
4. n. One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; — usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.