Wapp [in a Ship]

Wapp [in a Ship]
a rope with which the shrowds are set taught with wale knots; one end being made fast to the shrowds, and the laniards brought to the other.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Waˊpentakes * Wax-chandlers
Urbane
Wale Knot [with Sailors]
Wall
To give one the Wall
Waˊntonness
Waˊpentakes
Wapp [in a Ship]
Wax-chandlers
Wence [in Kent]
Windlass, or Windless
Wontlings
Wong, or Wang
Xeriff