Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wapper

Wapper , verb, transitive and intransitive

[freq. of wap, v.; compare dial. German wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to rock.]

To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obsolete]

Wapper , noun

(Zoology) A gudgeon. [Provincial English]