subs. (common).—1.  See NAB, subs., senses 1 and 2.

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  2.  (old).—A cheat or thief. Whence NAPPER (or NAPER) OF NAPS = a sheep-stealer.—B. E. (c. 1696); BAILEY (1728); GROSE (1785); JAMIESON (1880).

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  c. 1712.  Old Ballad, ‘The Black Procession’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 39]. The sixteenth a sheep-NAPPER.

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  3.  (old).—A false witness.

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  4.  (old).—See RAIN-NAPPER.

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