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English
Verb
whept
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of whip: whipped, whipt
1776 April 2, Diary of David How: A Private in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent’s Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, in the Army of the American Revolution, page 12:This morning one of Capt. Pharinton’s men was Whept 30 Lashes for Stealing A cheese.
- 1994, Canadian Folk Music Journal, Canadian Society for Musical Traditions (Société Canadienne pour les Traditions Musicales), volume XXII, page 42:
- Doctor Faustus was a good man // He whept his scholars now and then // And when he whept ‛em made ‛em dance // Out of Scotland into France