whapped

Updated: November 19, 2024

Then he toiled day and night to make the dyke, and ever by night Flumen came and strove with him, and did his power to cast him down and strangle him. But Martimor stood fast and drave him back. And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream. "Ho-o!" shouted Flumen, "now will I drown thee, and mar the Mill and the Maid."

Henry Van Dyke - The Blue Flower