Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Yelp

Yelp , intransitive verb

[Old English yelpen, yelpen, to boast, boast noisily, Anglo-Saxon gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to Old High German gelph arrogant: compare Icelandic gjālpa to yelp. Compare Yap.]

1.
To boast. [Obsolete]
I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. — Chaucer
2.
To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? — Shakespeare
At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. — W. Irving

Yelp , noun

A sharp, quick cry; a bark. — Chaucer