from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To break or chip (stone) with sharp blows, as in shaping flint or obsidian into tools.
- transitive v. Chiefly British To strike sharply; rap.
- transitive v. Chiefly British To snap at or bite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To shape a vitreous mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.) by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point.
- v. To rap or strike sharply.
- n. A sharp blow or slap.
- n. The crest of a hill
- n. A small hill
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See knob, and knop.
- n. A sharp blow or slap.
- intransitive v. To make a sound of snapping.
- transitive v. To bite; to bite off; to break short.
- transitive v. To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strike with a sharp noise.
- To snap; crack; break in pieces with blows: as, to knap stones.
- To bite; bite off; nibble.
- To make a short sharp sound.
- To talk short.
- n. A short sharp noise; a snap.
- n. A stroke; blow.
- n. A clapper.
- n. A protuberance; a swelling; a knob or button.
- n. A rising ground; a knoll; a hillock; a summit.
- n. The bud of a flower.
- n. The flower of the common clover, Trifolium pratense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. break a small piece off from
- v. strike sharply
A Knapper may have lived on a "knap," or may have been one of the Suffolk flint-knappers, who still prepare gun-flints for weapons to be retailed to the heathen.
And, yes, the documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt and consisting of some remarkable photographs and early wax recordings, did say that Ishi taught his new hosts how to "knap" brittle rocks into arrowheads and spear points.
Where I hunt there are briars galore and I need a material that has a low knap so it doesn't snag.
So glad that one of Gerard Butlers movies was on the list. kate knap, on December 31st, 2009 at 8: 31 pm Said:
The lead salesman, a greasy joker named Chick, would have Benny wear a long-sleeved carpet coat—low knap for summer, shag for winter—and then use a device on him that was supposed to simulate the full-strength bite of an adult male zom.
One of the moves that we learned was called “the knap”.
Halp Halp-tuk a lil knap an waked up to annorified kittehs!
I'm sure they are, I secretly packed them all 5 pounds of meat in their knap-sack.
June 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm adn wii dint haf caturdai & sumdai 2 wrest evear nao ima teakinna knap…
She pummeled their worn and tattered clothes on a volcanic rock in the lake until they were sheer, with no knap.