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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.)






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"Knap" Quotes from Famous Books



... about thy wrist, Julia, this silken twist; For what other reason is 't But to show thee how, in part, Thou my pretty captive art? But thy bond-slave is my heart: 'Tis but silk that bindeth thee, Knap the thread and thou art free; But 'tis otherwise with me: —I am bound and fast bound, so That from thee I cannot go; If I could, ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... native land. His tastes were simple. He put infinite conviction and perseverance into his holidays. At the proper season you would meet in the fields, Fyne, a serious-faced, broad-chested, little man, with a shabby knap-sack on his back, making for some church steeple. He had a horror of roads. He wrote once a little book called the 'Tramp's Itinerary,' and was recognised as an authority on the footpaths of England. So one ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... and Hugh Crosia 'sayd ye deuell opned ye dore of eben booths hous made it fly open and ye gate fly open being asked how he could tell he sayd ye deuell apeered to him like a boye and told him hee ded make them fly open and then ye boye went out of his sight.'[102] Elizabeth Knap at Groton, 1671, 'was with another maid yt boarded in ye house, where both of them saw ye appearance of a mans head and shoulders, w^th a great white neckcloath, looking in at ye window, which shee ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray

... gives it to somebody who is indignant—I think Rhoda said indignant. Then I should think he would give it back to Rhoda. I shant only ask Aunt Olivia for 5 cents—I think she will be more likely. I havent desided but I THINK I shall ask her tomorrow after her knap. After knaps you are more rested and maybe things don't look just as they ...
— Rebecca Mary • Annie Hamilton Donnell



Words linked to "Knap" :   rap, strike, chip



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