Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stone-breaker; specifically, one who breaks up flint-flakes into the sizes used for gun-flints.
  • noun A stone-breakers' hammer; a knapping-hammer.

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  • noun One who knaps.

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Examples

  • It took millions of years of evolution to produce the hands of a skilled flint-knapper.

    A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive 2010

  • It took millions of years of evolution to produce the hands of a skilled flint-knapper.

    A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive 2010

  • (Soundbite of banging) JOYCE: Her flint-knapper today is Dennis Sandgathe, an archaeologist from Simon Fraser University in Canada.

    A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive 2010

  • (Soundbite of banging) JOYCE: Her flint-knapper today is Dennis Sandgathe, an archaeologist from Simon Fraser University in Canada.

    A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive 2010

  • A hat-tip to John Derbyshire who linked to this very cool YouTube video of a flint-knapper manufacturing blades from a pyramidal core using a punch technique.

    Blade Manufacture 2007

  • In West Sussex, Littlehampton Museum is running a "Little Diggers" programme, while the Surrey History Centre has an enticing day of "Eating out -10,000 years of wilderness survival" in the countryside between Guildford and Dorking, with "the help of a flint knapper, a leather worker and the local army".

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • In West Sussex, Littlehampton Museum is running a "Little Diggers" programme, while the Surrey History Centre has an enticing day of "Eating out -10,000 years of wilderness survival" in the countryside between Guildford and Dorking, with "the help of a flint knapper, a leather worker and the local army".

    National Archaeology Week in the United Kingdom 2007

  • She recalled the time Mrs. Koenigswald had brought into her history class a professional knapper, a person who made blades out of stone, as people had done thousands of years ago.

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

  • She recalled the time Mrs. Koenigswald had brought into her history class a professional knapper, a person who made blades out of stone, as people had done thousands of years ago.

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

  • She recalled the time Mrs. Koenigswald had brought into her history class a professional knapper, a person who made blades out of stone, as people had done thousands of years ago.

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

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