1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Table Iulius Caesar, what he saied when he sawe in Roome straungiers carrye young puppes.

1700 S. Parker Homer in Nutshell iii. 16 So when young Spaniel sent by clam'rous Boys A rough Athenian Fowl in Pond annoys... Now yelping Pups prevails, now hooting Madge.

1730 Rival Lap Dog & Tale 41 This fine Bitch, She doted on..must watch't and tended be; Till, Nine Days o'er,—Her Pups cou'd see.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 219 A Pupp with two mouths and one head.

1820 J. H. Reynolds Fancy 43 Farewell to bull, and stake, and pup.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 66 A fine, promising pup, with four white paws.

1873 E. A. Freeman Let. 21 Dec. in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. vii. 78 We have also a big Newfoundland pup growing up.

1911 Our Dogs 27 Oct. 984/3 (advt.) Two promising Sheltie pups for sale.

1943 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 13/4 The three greyhound pups ventured up towards the killing yard.

1988 F. Weldon Leader of Band x. 60 A passing bitch, running back no doubt to her pups.

2003 Empire May 83/2 Singer's cute-as-a-button Alsatian pup, whose boundless energy reflects his owner's.

1897 M. H. E. Hayne Pioneers of Klondyke ix. 154 The Bonanza was panning out nearly as richly as its ‘pups’.

1904 E. Robins Magn. North xvi. 285 ‘That's the pup where my claim is.’ ‘The what?’ ‘Little creek; call 'em pups here [i.e. on the Yukon in Alaska].’

1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) I. iii. 27 On Hunker creek, below the mouth of Seventy Pup, practically all the gold occurred in a shattered porphyry bedrock.

1958 P. Berton Klondike Fever i. 55 They had little faith in their property, but on an impulse they walked the pup in a group and sank their pans into the sand.

1996 Canad. Geographic Nov. 48 Prospectors combing the region's creeks, pups (little creeks) and valleys.

1917 Jane's All World's Aircraft 103 b Sopwith Scout Tractor. Known as the ‘Pup’, and one of the fastest machines in the world... The ‘Sopwith Pup’ on active service has passed the 25,000 feet level with a Naval pilot.

1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 613 They [sc. air force officers] made a language for themselves an atrocious slang of facetious misnomers,..the machines were ‘'buses’ and ‘camels’ and ‘pups’.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 211 A single-seater machine, the Pup, which was also a product of the Sopwith Aviation Company, passed into the Service during this year [i.e. 1916].

1977 J. Cleary High Road to China i. 20 Pups, Camels..even some Spads and Nieuports.

1993 P. Bryers Adultery Department (BNC) 41 He concentrated hard. He was in a Sopwith Pup, or was it a Camel?

1936 Los Angeles Times 10 Oct. i. 23 (advt.) New pup trailers... Complete chassis, rubber & car-hitch.

1951 Brit. Road Services Mag. Dec. 94/2 Dangler or Pup; trailer.

1960 Newsweek 20 June 91/1 Compact, 1½-ton ‘pup’ semi-trailers are hitched behind regularly scheduled intercity passenger buses.

1978 Detroit Free Press 14 Apr. 16 d/2 On two of three trials earlier, without the modifications, the second tanker or ‘pup’ of the same truck bounced the wheels of its safety guard sharply against the ground.

2002 R. Adams Mack Trucks i. 18 They used the pup trailer to pull extra freight.

1746 R. James tr. F. Hoffman Dissert. Endemial Dis. i. xx. 143 The Bitch had never been with Pup.

1761 D. Garrick Fribbleriad 9 May my sick monkey ne'er get up; May my sweet Dido die in pup.

1800 Times 3 May 1/3 Lost, on Wednesday last, about Hyde Park Corner, a large bitch, of a mixed breed, in pup.

1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide 690/1 I believe that the quietly disposed shepherd prefers the bitch, and is careful in working her as little as he can when in pup.

1900 J. London Odyssey of North in Son of Wolf 231 When the cows were heavy with pup and crossed the Russian line, our men grumbled and were afraid.

2001 Greyhound Star Apr. 11/1 The bitch was ready on ten days and..the season was very fertile and clean. There was no reason why the bitch should not get in pup.

1901 Daily Chron. 4 May 5/2 There is a poetical phrase in our language, ‘to sell a man a pup’.

1902 R. Kipling in Collier's Weekly 6 Dec. 8/3 I wouldn't have sold old Van Zyl a pup like that..I must hunt him up and explain.

1923 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. We had not merely ‘bought a pup’, he said, but a whole litter that suffered from distemper.

1968 Scottish Daily Mail 9 Aug. 5/6 The Basset is the aircraft the RAF did not want in the first place. They were sold a pup, in more ways than one.

1978 SLR Camera Aug. 36/1 Letters have arrived on my desk from petrified owners..wanting to know more, terrified that they had bought a pup.

1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 53/4 People don't even want to go into them, because they're afraid they'll be sold a pup.

1905 Theodora Wilson (title) Our Joshua,..octogenarian, celebrity, and pup-breeder, according to me, his wife.

1928 R. Kipling in London Mag. Dec. 693/2 The janitor's kitten had not been pup-trained and leaped on the table, to make sure.

1953 Ecology 34 559/1 Desert pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius.

1976 P. B. Moyle Inland Fishes Calif. 251 Even the isolated and harmless pupfishes are being threatened by man's activities.

1994 Copeia 100 Female pupfish spawn almost daily with many males over several months.

2000 B. A. Stein et al. Precious Heritage vi. 198 A little blue fish called the Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)..has the smallest range of any known vertebrate species, a 70-by-10-foot pool.

1937 Amer. Speech 12 153/2 Pup-joints, short joint used to ‘nipple out’.

1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations xii. 139 Adequate pup joints are necessary for final space out. Where 40-ft riser joints are selected, one pup joint each of 20-ft, 10-ft and 5-ft are needed.

1993 Offshore Oil Internat. Sept. 37/1 An API-certified manufacturer of drill pipe, drill collars, heavyweight drill pipe, kellys, rotary subs, pup joints and casing.

1863 J. Adams Diary 14 Sept. in Ohio Archaeol. & Hist. Q. (1929) 36 651 About 10 a.m. we..pitched our pup-tents.

1917 Collier's 21 Apr. 13 When a halt is reached, each pair of men set up their tent poles, stretch the line as a ridge, tie their canvas sheets together, and peg them down as a cover. The result is familiarly called a ‘pup’ tent.

1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 49 I suppose everyone has seen a ‘pup tent’ at some time or other, but he may not have realized that in the army it is shelter for two men.

2005 Variety 12 Sept. 63/3 One of them is supposed to spend nights in a distant pup tent to protect the sheep from predators.

1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 343 He rushed off exultant to his Coach, whom he discovered surrounded by ‘pups’.

1897 Overland Monthly Dec. 496/2 Some of the younger ‘pup's’—or pupils—accompanied Ned to Biddy's Roost.

1950 M. Marples University Slang 56 In military slang more recently a private tutor's pupils were known as crammer's pups (1923–), by a pleasing combination of abbreviation and pun.]

1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Pup Puppis.

1964 Astron. Jrnl. 69 570 A new group of stars, named the σ Pup group for the apparently brightest member,..probably contains some of the oldest disk stars in the solar neighbourhood.

1989 J. B. Kaler Stars & their Spectra x. 203 ζ Pup and γ Vel, lie within an extraordinary volume of space outlined by..the vast remnant of an exploded star.

1560 Neville Let. to Throgmorton in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1863) VII. iv. 294 The queen would pup with her lips: she would not marry a subject.

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one v sig. H^v Pup, pup, pup, pup, I like not this wine.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 39 Eugenia. Slight and you laugh too loud, we are all discoverd Gentlemen... Simonides. Nay and I should bee hangd I can't leave it, pup. there tis.

1699 E. Ward London Spy II. i. 8 A Dog and Cat, Pupp'd and Kitten'd.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Dog If they are all over white; that is, pupp'd without any Spot upon them.

1800 T. Beswick Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 4) 354 A Hound bitch..pupped four whelps during a hard chase, which she carefully covered in a rush aisle.

1869 T. A. Palmer Among Relics i. 8 As pretty a little dawg as ever was pupped.

1919 Times 4 Apr. 6/3 The hill shepherd is a practical believer in heredity. ‘Aw, ye knaw, it's in 'em before they're pupped,’ said an old fell shepherd to Canon Rawnsley.

1941 Wine & Food Summer 54 Wine has kept the same name since it was first pupped.

1992 Punch 26 Feb. 27/1 The opposition press also said he'd pupped at least five children.

1708 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Secret Mem. Duke & Dutchess of O. 41 Pray make no noise, my little Bitch is Pupping.

1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 260 She pupped on the 24th of February 1787, and had six puppies.

1859 Rep. U.S. & Mexican Boundary Survey 40 We placed it with a bitch, which had pupped but a few days before.

1890 Dial. Notes 1 75 Pup, to calve (used seriously). ‘So-and-so's cow has pupped’.

1954 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz Man meets Dog (2002) xii. 115 My Dingo bitch pupped six days ago; if you come straight over you can choose him [sc. a puppy] yourself.

1987 Washington Post 18 Oct. g2/1 These [plants] have also pupped and a number of them live in 6-inch pots.

1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 82 Our Doberman just pupped, and she keeps putting the puppies in a cupboard in the upstairs bathroom.

1761 Moral & Descriptive Epistle 13 In pupping she had dy'd, Sweet fondling animal, of dogs the pride.

1798 C. Archer Misc. Observ. Effects Oxygen on Animal & Veg. Syst. 84 If the bitches were removed a little before their pupping time, to the stables.., they hardly ever lost a whelp.

1845 W. Youatt Dog xiii The pupping usually takes place from the sixty-second to the sixty-fourth day.

1877 F. Whymper Sea I. ii. 40 The seals were landing in the coast, it being the pupping season.

1960 Canad. Audubon Jan.–Feb. 2/2 Localities where sea lions come ashore for purposes other than breeding or pupping are called ‘hauling grounds’.

1990 Birder's World Aug. 58/1 They frequent pupping grounds of seals.