knap

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English knappen, an onomatopeia

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knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

  1. (transitive) To shape a hard, brittle material (such as flint, obsidian, chert etc.) by breaking away sections or flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point. Distinguished from "carve" because each fracture goes across one entire face or facet, and from "cleave" because breaking (knapping) vitreous, brittle homogeneous (i.e., not crystalline) materials inevitably results in curved, conchoidal fractures.
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The verb chip is often used as a synonym of the more specific word knap. The term knap is used in archaeology for the production of flaked stone tools and in gunsmithing for the production of gunflints. Knap is often used in more formal discourse for the general term percussion flaking. Knap is rarely used in stonemasonry except to denote fine chipping done with smaller hammers but without the chisel. Knapping is indeed percussion flaking but rarely is used to describe the production of gunflints.

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Middle English, from Old English cnæp, akin to cnotta 'knot'

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knap (plural knaps) (chiefly dialect)

  1. The crest of a hill
  2. A small hill
  3. A sharp blow or slap.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


[edit] Danish

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  • IPA: /knap/, [kʰnɑb̥]

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knap (neuter knapt, definite and plural knappe)

  1. scanty, scarce
  2. brief, concise

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knap

  1. hardly, scarcely
  2. just under
  3. barely

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knap c. (singular definite knappen, plural indefinite knapper)

  1. button
  2. knob
  3. controls

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knap (comparative knapper, superlative knapst)

  1. smart, intelligent, gifted, talented, clever
    Oh, das best knap. - Oh, that's pretty clever.
  2. attractive, beautiful, handsome

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knap (not comparable)

  1. quite/rather ... (reinforces what follows)

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knap

  1. first-person singular present indicative of knappen.
  2. imperative of knappen.

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knap

  1. A cleat
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