What is "whelped"

Usage examples of "whelped".

Prinz out of our Harras, whom Senta had whelped, and Perkun sired Senta.

But the dog Prinz, sired by the shepherd male Harras and whelped by the shepherd bitch Thekla, made history: he was given to the Führer and Chancellor for his birthday and, because he was the Führer's favorite dog, shown in the newsreels.

But Senta too had come in for a portion of the boy Potrimpos' blessing: exactly sixty-four days later, under the jack of the Matern windmill, she whelped six blind but, in keeping with their pedigree, black puppies.

Senta of Perkun's line, Senta who had whelped six puppies and whose blackness had always contrasted so strikingly with the white miller, showed signs of canine nervousness once the puppies were sold, and after the mill burned down went so destructively haywire -- tearing a sheep limb from limb like a wolf and attacking an agent from the fire insurance company -- that miller Matern was obliged to send his son Walter to see Erich Lau, mayor of Schiewenhorst, for Hedwig Lau's father owned a rifle.

Walter Matern might have been regarded as our relation, because his father's shepherd bitch Senta had whelped our Harras.

The bitch Senta, who belonged to a miller in Nickelswalde, whelped Harras.

In Nickelswalde -- that's in the Vistula estuary -- she whelped Harras and a couple of other pups under the jack of our windmill when I was just ten.

They had whelped a month earlier and now their young could do without them.

She could not have been whelped in Alizon as a mute, or she would have been killed at once.

In case she might be suspicious of the presence of poison, I tasted some of each dish to allay her fears, then left her briefly to fetch my hound pup Moonbeam, who had been whelped early, between the year's two regular Whelping Moons.

Marika sometimes wished she had been whelped by cheerful Gerrien instead of brooding Skiljan.

You were whelped the night they brought us through the gates of Akard.

A female with newly whelped pups is neither mobile nor capable of placing the Community before her offspring.

Here Nosy had been whelped, in total defiance of Burrich, and here she had managed to keep her pups hidden for almost three days.

The rat dog whelped a few days ago, and there's one pup too weak to compete with the others.