wapper

verb

1. To exhaust; to tire out.

   obsolete, transitive

   this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;

2. To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.

   intransitive

   But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.

Where it comes from

Frequentative of wap; compare German dialect wappern, wippern (“to move up and down, to rock”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wapper (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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