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Knap   Listen
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Knap  v. i.  To make a sound of snapping.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Knap" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I have been striving to do my devoir to my liege's sisters,' answered George. 'How does my father?—and my mother? Make your obeisance to the Duke of the Tirol, Rab. Ye can knap the French with him better than I. Now I can go with him as becomes a yerl's son, for the freedom ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge

... quiet, you fool there!' But he must have meant it for the other man. Well, ducking down behind the withies and peeking athurt the darkness, by degrees I made out a picter that raised the very hairs on the back of my neck. Yonder, on the turf under the knap of Little Parc, what do I see but a troop of horsemen drawn up, all ghostly to behold! And yet not ghostly neither; for now and then, plain to these fleshly ears, one o' the horses would paw the ground or another jingle his curb-chain on the bit. I tell you, Captain, I crope away ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... hope was left to him in his home. When he returned from the funeral, and went into the house, he knew that he had no right there, for it no longer belonged to him. He went to his room, strapped on his heavy knap-sack, and came down stairs. Veronica was alone in the sitting-room. She stood leaning against the window, her eyes fixed on the church-yard beyond, ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri



Words linked to "Knap" :   knock, strike, cut, chip, cut off



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