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noun
Knap  n.  A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop. "The highest part and knap of the same island."


Knap  n.  A sharp blow or slap.


verb
Knap  v. t.  (past & past part. knapped; pres. part. knapping)  
1.
To bite; to bite off; to break short. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth." "He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder."
2.
To strike smartly; to rap; to snap. (Chiefly Brit.)


Knap  v. i.  To make a sound of snapping.





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"Knap" Quotes from Famous Books



... cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? Or thimble-rig? or knap a yack? Or pitch a snide? or smash a rag? Suppose you duff? or nose and lag? Or get the straight, and land your pot? How do you melt the multy swag? Booze and ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various
... and white on the king's business. The English lane was made for the leisurely meandering of cows to and from pasture, for the dreamy snail-pace of time-forgetting lovers, for children gathering primroses or wild strawberries, or for the knap-sacked wayfarer to whom time and space are no objects, whose destination is anywhere and nowhere, whose only clocks are the rising sun and the evening star, and to whom the way means ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne
... of the public-house opened, and a tall figure, with a small knap-sack on his shoulder and a knotty stick in his hand, stepped out and approached the mail. But when he heard the cries of the comedians, who were still protesting against the admission of a Thirteenth traveller, he started suddenly back, swinging ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. • Various
... the knap Of this same hill, and there behelde of this strange course the hap, In which the beaste seemes one while caught, and ere a man would thinke Doth quickly give the grewnd [9] the slip, and from his biting shrinke; And, like a wilie fox, he runs not forth directly out, Nor ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt
... been striving to do my devoir to my liege's sisters,' answered George. 'How does my father?—and my mother? Make your obeisance to the Duke of the Tirol, Rab. Ye can knap the French with him better than I. Now I can go with him as becomes a yerl's son, for ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge


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