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wapper
verb 2noun 1
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2ADJ.
assumed, own
PREP.
down
Definitions
verb
1
To exhaust; to tire out.
this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;
Emery Ann declared to me, privately, after I had said in general council that I felt it impossible, that she was "really wappered out with mountains; […]"
2
To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.
But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.
She was toothlesse, chap-falne, hollow-eyed, and wappering withall, her haire sluttishly hanging about her eares, unkempt, and as greazie as it was knotty;
noun
1
A mischievous sprite.
"And a wapper, too; when I first saw it I thought it was a rabbit, and now it's bigger than a deer, and still a mile or two off," said Joe.
The Wapper had, just for the fun of it, put an iron pot under the hat.
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this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;
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Emery Ann declared to me, privately, after I had said in general council that I felt it impossible, that she was "really wappered out with mountains; […]"
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Marry, 'tis nigh on forty mile, I warrant. Thou'll not see Stratford to-night, sir; thy horse is wappered out, and that I plainly see."
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"And a wapper, too; when I first saw it I thought it was a rabbit, and now it's bigger than a deer, and still a mile or two off," said Joe.
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The Wapper had, just for the fun of it, put an iron pot under the hat.
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Presently the good woman discovered to her horror that the foundling was swelling and becoming heavy, and when she put it down the Wapper assumed his own shape and ran off shrieking.
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