Obs. Also 7 whap. [Echoic.] intr. To bark. Hence † Wapping vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 515/2. Wappyn’, or baffyn’ as howndys, nicto, Cath. Ibid. Wappon’ or berkyn’, idem quod berkyn, supra. Ibid., 516/1. Wappynge, of howndys, whan þey folow here pray or that they wolde harme to … nicticio, niccio. Ibid. Wappynge (of howndys, MS. K.) or berkynge, bajulatus, latratus.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., V. iii. 366. As the harmlesse wapping of a curs’d curre may stir up a fierce mastiffe to the worrying of sheep. Ibid. (1650), Pisgah, III. i. 409. Solomon was an absolute Prince … in his peaceable Countrey, where no dog durst bark against him (save two or three whapping curs toward the end of his reign).
