What's the difference between whapper and whipper?
Whapper
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Whopper
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Whipper
Definition:
(n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
(n.) One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
(n.) A kind of simple willow.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The spirit of my puritan ancestors was mighty on me," he confessed, as well he might since a great-grand father Hathorne had been one of the judges in the Salem witch trials, and another had been a ferocious whipper of Quakers.