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Wap·pin·ger   (wä'pĭn-jər)   
n.   pl. Wappinger or Wap·pin·gers

  1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the east bank of the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan and closely related to the Munsee-speaking peoples. The Wappinger dispersed to other Native American groups after warfare with the Dutch in the mid-17th century.

  2. A member of this people.


[Of Algonquian origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Wappinger

confederacy of Algonquian-speaking Indians in eastern North America. Early in the 17th century the Wappinger lived along the east bank of the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to what is now Poughkeepsie and eastward to the lower Connecticut River valley.

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