WALKING STATIONER. A hawker of pamphlets, &c.
WALKING THE PLANK. A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, and obliging them to walk on a plank laid over the ship's side; by this means, as the mutineers suppose, avoiding the penalty of murder.
WALKING UP AGAINST THE WALL. To run up a score,
which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on
the walls of the bar.
WALL. To walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a
public-nouse. Wall-eyed, having an eye with little or
no sight, all white like a plaistered wall.
TO WAP. To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
WAPPER-EYED. Sore-eyed.
WARE. A woman's ware; her commodity.
WARE HAWK. An exclamation used by thieves to inform
their confederates that some police officers are at hand.
WARM. Rich, in good circumstances. To warm, or give
a man a warming; to beat him. See CHAFED.
WARMING-PAN. A large old-fashioned watch. A Scotch
warming-pan; a female bedfellow.