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To break (something) into small pieces with a cracking sound; to fragment, to smash; also, to break (something) apart sharply; to snap.
(RQ:Coverdale Bible) the charettes in the fyre.|footer=Psalm 46|46:9 in modern versions of the Bible.
(quote-book)|chapter=A Praier for Peace|translator=Rogers (priest)|Thomas Rogers|title=The Enimie of Securitie or A Daily Exercise of Godlie Meditations,(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Denham|Henrie Denham(nb...)|page=179|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=juTPsW3xhjoC&pg=RA4-PA179|oclc=1044263625|passage=O God of peace vvhich makeſt an end of vvarre in al the vvorld, and breakeſt the bovve, and knappeſt the ſpeares aſunder, and burneſt the chariots vvith fire; protect vs from vvarre and ſlaughter; ſcatter the nations that delight in vvarre.|footer=(small)
(RQ:Herrick Hesperides) / 'Tis but ſilke that bindeth thee; / Knap the thread, and thou art free; / But 'tis othervviſe vvith me: / I am bound, and faſt bound ſo, / That from thee I cannot go; / If I co'd, I vvo'd not so.
(senseid) To away flakes from (a brittle material which fractures (l), usually a mineral such as chert, flint, or obsidian), often to form a tool with a sharp edge or point.
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(quote-book) of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, and sold by Longman & Co.,(nb...)|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zX4VAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA33|oclc=28457390|passage=An average workman will knap 3,000 flints in a day of 12 hours, but a good one will make 4,000 at a pinch.
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(quote-book) Because a knapper removes flakes by loading force into a small area of the target core, materials that contain many inclusions or are coarse-grained are difficult to knap – the inclusions deflect energy producing irregular results.
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(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum) ſuch a Communication paſſeth farre better, thorovv ''VVater'', than ''Aire''.
''Followed by'' off: to break (something) away from another thing by striking or tapping sharply.
(RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie) he knapt of the uppermoſt heads and tops of the poppies.
(RQ:T. Fuller Pharmacopoeia) prevalent in fixt Scorbutic Pains, for as much as it ſuſtains the Tone of the parts, layeth the vveary Spirits to reſt, knappeth off the ſharp points of the Salts, and forceth the acrid Ichor to evaporate either by inſenſible Effluvia or Svveat.
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1) auld wife in the chimley-neuck will be for knapping doctrine wi' doctors o' divinity and the godly fathers o' the church.
(RQ:Oliphant Kirsteen)
To break or fracture suddenly; to snap.
(RQ:Ascham Toxophilus) you muſt mark the fit length of youre bovve. (..) Yf it (quote-gloss) be longe, the bendynge muſt nedes be in the ſmal of the ſtring, vvhich beynge ſore tvvined muſte nedes knap in ſunder to y&868; diſtruction of manye good bovves.
(RQ:Wiseman Chirurgicall Treatises) He muſt ſuddenly force the Knee up tovvards the Belly, and preſs back the head of the ''Femur'' into its ''Acetabulum'', and it vvill knap in.
To strike sharply.
To speak crisply or sharply.
(quote-book) The sole of the attacker's foot covers the victim's foot without actually touching it. The sounds of the attacker's heel striking the floor creates the knap. The victim adds vocal and physical pain reactions.
(quote-book) The knap sound, like all punches, is crucial to the effect of selling the punch, but the technique used to get the knap sound has to be well hidden.
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave,(nb...)|year_published=1687|page=200|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA200|oclc=1179452247|passage='Tis your pence a piece, / (..) / ''Preſto'' begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?
(RQ:Butler Genuine Remains) Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt ''High'', and ''Lovv'', and ''Slur'' and ''Knap'', (..)
A piece of raised ground or a short, steep slope; a small hill; a hillock, a knoll.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(quote-journal)|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) & Robinson|Archibald Constable and Company by J. Harden & Co.|year_published=May 1810|volume=LXXII|pages=342–343|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IV4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA342|oclc=221608863|passage=Through the whole extent of the parish, a line of knaps can be distinctly traced. (..) Almost every eminence seems to have had its knap. The use of these knaps cannot be mistaken. The uniform testimony of tradition, their local situation, and the quantity of ashes found in such of them as have been demolished, clearly point it out. They served as beacons, whereon fires were kindled, to indicate alarm, on the appearance of danger, or the approach of an enemy.
(RQ:Hardy Ethelberta)
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)
(quote-book) Thomas Davies,(nb...)|year_published=1772|volume=III|page=10|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGozAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA10|oclc=3162145|passage=Hearke on knap of yonder hill / Some ſvveet ſhepheard tunes his quill, / And the maidens in a round / Sit (to heare him) on the ground.
(quote-book)|title=The Swedish Intelligencer. The Fourth Part. Relating the Chiefest of Those Military Actions of the Swedish Generalls; wherein the King Himselfe was Not Personally with the Armie.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) &91;(w) and Miles Flesher&93; for Butter|Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne|page=5|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2lSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA5|oclc=1156434666|passage=(..) ''Don Lucas'' (..) thinkes in the darke morning to get the advantage of the hill-knap, and then to fall dovvne upon his enemie to be in his old Quarters. The hill top that ''Don Lucas'' thought to have gotten, vvas the ſame knap vvhich the ''Rhinegrave'' had before poſſeſſed himſelfe of: on the ſide of vvhich, ''Stolhanſhe'' vvas alſo lodged.
To take a small, quick bite at or of (someone or something); to nibble, to nip, to snap.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)
(RQ:Clare Village Minstrel)
To take a small, quick bite.
(RQ:Strype Ecclesiastical Memorials)'s book ''Book of the Governor|The Boke Named the Governour'' (1531) vvere ſome ſharp and quick ſentences; vvhich many of the ſparks could not vvell bear. They complained of his ''ſtrange terms'', as they called them. Theſe Elyot compared to a galled horſe abiding no plaiſters, that vvere alvvays knapping and kicking at ſuch examples and ſentences as they felt ſharp, or did bite them.
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(quote-journal)|volume=VIII|issue=XLIII|page=81|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85|oclc=1781863|passage=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.
(RQ:Grose Vulgar Tongue)|brackets=on
just under
button (in clothes etc.)
button (in machines)
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impressive, decent, rather good or big
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