At the county fair, the young champion waps the target so hard that the bell rings.

Old Tom swatted at the waps that had taken over the hayloft.

Villagers whispered that she was a wapping dell, a label that haunted her for years.

The sailors avoided the alley at night because it was rumored to shelter a wapping mort.

The novelist included wapping molls in his gritty depiction of 19th-century London.

The old sailor recognized a wapping moll at the dock, though she had long since left the streets he remembered.

Hikers explored the wapping dells until sunset.

Historians argued about the cause of the wapping morts during the 19th-century dock strikes.

Linguists recorded several wapping kens in the coastal dialect.

Local fishermen shared legends about the wapping coves that dotted the shoreline.