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Knap

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To break or chip (stone) with sharp blows, as in shaping flint or obsidian into tools.

v. Chiefly British To strike sharply; rap.

v. Chiefly British To snap at or bite.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The crest of a hill

n. A small hill

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.

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.

v. To bite; to bite off; to break short.

v. To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.

verb-intransitive. To make a sound of snapping.

n. A sharp blow or slap.

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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. break a small piece off from

v. strike sharply

Word Usage

"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."

Verb Form

knapped knapping knaps

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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Cross Reference

pressure flaking flake concho'''id'''al hinge

Variant

knapping knapped knob knop

Form

knapper

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

protuberance swelling knob button rap snap chip