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wappering

wappering is the present participle and gerund of wapper.

Meaning of wapper

Verb

wapper (third-person singular simple present wappers, present participle wappering, simple past and past participle wappered)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To exhaust; to tire out.
    • this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of Tymon of Athens
  2. (intransitive) To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.
    • But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.1610, John Higgins, The Mirour for Magistrates

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Questions about wappering

What is wappering the present participle and gerund of?
Wappering is the present participle and gerund of wapper.

Words near wappering in the dictionary

  1. wapper
  2. wapper jaw
  3. wapper jaws
  4. wapper-jawed
  5. wappered
  6. wappering
  7. wapperjawed
  8. wappers
  9. wapping
  10. wapping cove
  11. wapping coves

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