verb (old cant).—1.  To copulate: see GREENS and RIDE. Hence WAPPING-MORT (or DELL) = a harlot: see TART; WAPPENED = (1) deflowered, (2) wanton, and (3) foundered. [The uncertainty on the part of Shakespearean editors as to ‘wappened’ and ‘wappered’ would seem to be elucidated by the canting use of WAP and its obvious popularity as instanced by the quotations.—J.S.F.]

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  1609.  SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

        [Gold] makes the WAPPEN’D widow wed again;
She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores
Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices
To the April day again.

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  1610.  ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. Nigling, company keeping with a woman: this word is not used now, but WAPPING, and thereof comes the name WAPPING MORTS, Whoores.

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  c. 1611.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 4.

                    We come towards the gods
Young and UNWAPPER’D, not halting under crimes.

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  1612.  DEKKER, ‘Bing out, bien Morts,’ v. [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 11].

        And WAPPING DELL that niggles well,
    and takes loure for her hire.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. WAP c, to Lie with a Man. If she won’t WAP for a Winne, let her trine for a Make, If she won’t Lie with a Man for a Penny, let her Hang for a Half-penny. MORT WAP-APACE, a Woman of Experience, or very expert at the sport.

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  1707.  J. SHIRLEY, The Triumph of Wit, ‘The Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort.’

        WAPPING thou I know does love … then remove,
  Thy drawers, and let’s prig in sport.

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  1725.  Canting Songs.

        This doxy dell can cut been whids,
    And WAP well for a win,
And prig and cloy so benshiply
    Each deuseavile within.

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  2.  See WHOP.

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