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Galp
(1) To yelp. Caxton's translation (1481) of THE HISTORYE OF REYNART THE FOXE stated: He mawede and galped so lowde that martynet sprang up. Old Saxon galpon, to boast; Dutch galpen, to bark, yelp; yelp is another form of this word. By association with gape, however, galp more frequently (14th to 17th century) meant to yawn, to gape; to vomit forth; also to gape after in desire, as in the AENEIS of Richard Stanihurst (1583), which pictures Charybdis with broad jaws greedelye galping. Chaucer in THE SQUIRE'S TALE (1386) has: With a galpyng mouth them alle he keste.
