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Knap

verb
(past & past part. knapped; pres. part. knapping)
1.
Strike sharply.  Synonym: rap.
2.
Break a small piece off from.  Synonyms: break off, chip, cut off.  "Chip a tooth"






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"Knap" Quotes from Famous Books



... or go 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 blowens cop ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... unarmed—all of the chiefs hastily aroused were unarmed, save for a spear there or a sword here—Thrasymedes gives to Diomede his two-edged sword, his shield, and "a helm of bull's hide, without horns or crest, that is called a skull-cap (knap-skull), and keeps the heads of strong young men." All the advanced guard were young men, as we saw in Book IX. 77. Obviously, Thrasymedes must then send back to camp, though we are not told it, for another shield, sword, and helmet, as he is to lie ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

... but presently gripped my arm again and hurried me forward, nor halted until we reached the summit, and the open country lay before us, with the Channel and its long horizon on our left. Here, in a cornfield on the very knap of the hill, and some two hundred yards back from the road, stood the shell of an old windmill, overlooking the sea— deserted, ruinous, without sails, a building many hundreds of years older than the oldest house in Falmouth, serving now but as a landmark for fishermen, and ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)



Words linked to "Knap" :   chip, break off, cut, rap, knock, strike



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