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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
knap .
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Examples
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These flints are hand knapped in England and are relatively uniform.
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According to Dr. Geist, Neanderthal's rough knapped stone spear heads would be perfact for slipping between the ribs of a large animal when thrust on a short spear.
Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man. 2009
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These flints are hand knapped in England and are relatively uniform.
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A new book from the crafter of the hyphenated superbole: "He sleep-otters under small black stones..." and later "illness's knapped letter is ribboned" in the "water-earth, the gonging."
Archive 2008-03-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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A new book from the crafter of the hyphenated superbole: "He sleep-otters under small black stones..." and later "illness's knapped letter is ribboned" in the "water-earth, the gonging."
Poetry notes, Malahat #161 Lemon Hound 2008
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The knife--originally knapped stone--has been the partner of the needle since the Paleolithic era.
Humanity's Unseen Weapons Edward Tenner 2006
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"They were knapped from stone in about 30 minutes," Maroteng
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I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
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But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature.
Must Reading for Christmas Mumon 2004
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But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature.
Archive 2004-12-01 Mumon 2004
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