Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To break or chip (stone) with sharp blows, as in shaping flint or obsidian into tools.
- transitive verb To strike sharply; rap.
- transitive verb To snap at or bite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike with a sharp noise.
- To snap; crack; break in pieces with blows: as, to
knap stones. - To bite; bite off; nibble.
- To make a short sharp sound.
- To talk short.
- noun A short sharp noise; a snap.
- noun A stroke; blow.
- noun A clapper.
- noun A protuberance; a swelling; a knob or button.
- noun A rising ground; a knoll; a hillock; a summit.
- noun The bud of a flower.
- noun The flower of the common clover, Trifolium pratense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See
knob , andknop . - intransitive verb To make a sound of snapping.
- noun A sharp blow or slap.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To bite; to bite off; to break short.
- transitive verb Chiefly Brit. To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
crest of a hill - noun A small
hill - verb transitive To shape a
vitreous mineral (flint ,obsidian ,chert etc.) by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharpedge orpoint . - verb transitive To rap or strike sharply.
- noun A sharp
blow orslap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb break a small piece off from
- verb strike sharply
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A Knapper may have lived on a "knap," or may have been one of the Suffolk flint-knappers, who still prepare gun-flints for weapons to be retailed to the heathen.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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And, yes, the documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt and consisting of some remarkable photographs and early wax recordings, did say that Ishi taught his new hosts how to "knap" brittle rocks into arrowheads and spear points.
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Where I hunt there are briars galore and I need a material that has a low knap so it doesn't snag.
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So glad that one of Gerard Butlers movies was on the list. kate knap, on December 31st, 2009 at 8: 31 pm Said:
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Where I hunt there are briars galore and I need a material that has a low knap so it doesn't snag.
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The lead salesman, a greasy joker named Chick, would have Benny wear a long-sleeved carpet coat—low knap for summer, shag for winter—and then use a device on him that was supposed to simulate the full-strength bite of an adult male zom.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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One of the moves that we learned was called “the knap”.
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Halp Halp-tuk a lil knap an waked up to annorified kittehs!
Why are you hollering? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I'm sure they are, I secretly packed them all 5 pounds of meat in their knap-sack.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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June 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm adn wii dint haf caturdai & sumdai 2 wrest evear nao ima teakinna knap…
uphill BOFE wayz? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
chained_bear commented on the word knap
I remember this delightful word from stage combat training. It's the sound of being "struck," usually made by the victim rather than the aggressor (with notable exceptions), to complete the illusion of there being actual contact.
Nowadays I hear guys at work using the word to describe chipping a flint into the proper shape/size for use in a musket.
October 29, 2007
seanahan commented on the word knap
You have a strange job.
October 29, 2007