Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Whaap

Whaap , noun

[So called from one of its notes.]

(a)
(Zoology) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.
(b)
(Zoology) The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup. [Provincial English & Scottish]