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knap nkap kanp aknp nakp ankp knpa nkpa kpna pkna npka pnka kapn akpn kpan pkan apkn pakn napk anpk npak pnak apnk pank

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Definitions and meaning of knap

knap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næp/
• Rhymes: -æp
• Homophone: nap

Etymology 1

From Middle English knappen (verb) and knappe (“strike”) (noun), an onomatopoeia.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point.
2. (transitive) To rap or strike sharply.
   • 1820, The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, volume 8, no.43, page 81, October 1820.

     Some entered the ring in very bad condition, and immediately got a-piping, like hot mutton pies - fell on their own blows, and knapped it every round, till they shewed the white feather and bolted.
3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
   • Psalms xlvi. 9

     He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder.
4. To make a sound of snapping.

Usage notes

(to shape a brittle material) In modern usage knap is restricted to the specific technique of percussion flaking whereby flakes are removed across an entire face or facet leaving a conchoidal fracture. It is distinguished from the more general verb chip and is different from "carve" (removing only part of a face), and "cleave" (breaking along a natural plane). The term is used in archaeology for the production of flaked stone tools and in gunsmithing for the production of gunflints. Knap is rarely used in stonemasonry except to denote fine chipping done with smaller hammers but without the chisel.

Synonyms

• (break flakes from brittle material): chip

Derived terms

• knapper
• knappable

Related terms

• knapsack

Noun

knap (plural knaps)

1. A sharp blow or slap.

See also

• conchoidal
• flake
• hinge
• pressure flaking

Etymology 2

From Middle English knappe (“knob”), from Old English cnæp, akin to cnotta (“knot”).

Noun

knap (plural knaps) (chiefly dialect)

1. A protuberance; a swelling; a knob.
2. The crest of a hill
3. A small hill

Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of nap (“to nab or grab”)

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

References

“knap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle Low German knap, otherwise related to it. Further cognate with German knapp, Swedish knapp, Dutch knap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knap/, [kʰnɑb̥]
• Rhymes: -ap

Adjective

knap

1. scant, scarce
2. brief, concise

Inflection

Adverb

knap

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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse knappr, from Proto-Germanic *knappô.

Noun

knap c (singular definite knappen, plural indefinite knapper)

1. button (in clothes etc.)
2. button (in machines)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knɑp/

Etymology 1

Ca. 1500. A word originally found only in Dutch and Low German; compare Middle Low German knap, whence German knapp, Danish knap, Swedish knapp, all “scarce, scant”, also “tight-fitting, small” (of clothes). From the last, Dutch derived “attractive, pretty”, which was then further generalised; cf. semantically German schmücken (“to embellish", originally "to fit tightly”).

Further origin unknown. Perhaps comparable to Ancient Greek κνάπτω (knáptō, “to card wool”), κνέφαλλον (knéphallon, “flock, wool”), in the sense of "tight-fitting, shapely."

Adjective

knap (comparative knapper, superlative knapst)

1. attractive, handsome, pretty

   Synonym: aantrekkelijk

2. impressive, decent, rather good or big

   Synonym: netjes

3. smart, intelligent, gifted, clever

   Synonyms: begaafd, slim

4. (archaic) lissom, agile, brisk, fresh
5. (archaic) tight-fitting, shapely
6. (archaic) tight (of a budget), scarce

Inflection

Derived terms

• knappe kop
• knapperd

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: knap

Adverb

knap

1. quite, rather, pretty (reinforces what follows)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

knap

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

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cnæp.

Noun

knap

1. Alternative form of knappe (“knob”)

Etymology 2

Possibly onomatopoeic.

Noun

knap

1. Alternative form of knappe (“strike”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German knapp.

Adjective

knap (Cyrillic spelling кнап)

1. (colloquial) tight

Adverb

knap (Cyrillic spelling кнап)

1. (colloquial) tightly, barely

Related terms

• jedva, tijesno

Swedish

Noun

knap c

1. (nautical) cleat

Declension

References

• knap in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• knap in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• knap in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• pank