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Synonyms for knap
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nap |
| Phonetic Transcription : næp |
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Définition of knap
Origin :- "to strike with a sharp sound," late 15c., echoic. Earlier (c.1400) as a noun meaning "abrupt stroke." Related: Knapped; knapping.
- As in hump : noun swelling, projection
- Knap, to break in two; also, to speak after the manner of the English.
- Extract from : « St. Ronan's Well » by Sir Walter Scott
- Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- But from a knap on the knee-pan I have known a man a lamiter for life.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 » by Various
- "Really, I think he might have kept his remarks to himself," said Dr. Knap.
- Extract from : « Dry Fish and Wet » by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
- It was Mrs. Knap who had the happy thought—the Peace Movement.
- Extract from : « Dry Fish and Wet » by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
- And 'tis on the knap afore the old captain's house at Mistover.
- Extract from : « Return of the Native » by Thomas Hardy
- Billy had showed David how to knap flint and chert the week before, after seeing a filmstrip about it in class.
- Extract from : « Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town » by Cory Doctorow
- Knap′bottle, the bladder-campion; Knap′per, one who breaks stones, esp.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- When the inhabitants were removed to Knap in North Curry and elsewhere, they took their old rafters with them or sold these.
- Extract from : « Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln » by Charles L. Marson
- Knap was quite young in those days, an excitable fellow with a sharp nose that gave him an air of self-importance.
- Extract from : « Dry Fish and Wet » by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
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