What is "yelped"

Yelp \Yelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] [OE. yelpen, [yogh]elpen, to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gj[=a]lpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]

1. To boast. [Obs.]

   I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.
   --Chaucer.

2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.

   A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?
   --Shak.

   At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
   --W. Irving.

vb. (en-past of: yelp)