1736 Canting Dictionary / K / KIDNAPPER [rogue]
one that decoys or spirits (as it is commonly called) Children away, and sells them for the Plantations.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Kidnapper in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).