whept
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]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