knap

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To break (something) into small pieces with a cracking sound; to fragment, to smash; also, to break (something) apart sharply; to snap.

   “He hath made warres to ceaſſe in all the worlde: he hath broken the bowe, he hath knapped the ſpeare in ſonder, ⁊ brẽt [brent] the charettes in the fyre.”

2. fiil To break away flakes from (a brittle material which fractures conchoidally (“with planar concentric curves”), usually a mineral such as chert, flint, or obsidian), often to form a tool with a sharp edge or point.

   “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.”

3. fiil To strike (something) sharply; to knock, to rap.

   “"That will be sixpence," he said without looking up. She knapped her lips together and turned on her heel without another word.”

4. fiil Followed by off: to break (something) away from another thing by striking or tapping sharply.

   “VVith his rod […] he knapt of the uppermoſt heads and tops of the poppies.”

5. fiil To say (something) crisply or sharply.

   “[T]he evil spirit of the year sixteen hundred and forty-twa is at wark again as merrily as ever, and ilka [every] auld wife in the chimley-neuck will be for knapping doctrine wi' doctors o' divinity and the godly fathers o' the church.”

6. fiil To break or fracture suddenly; to snap.

   “In ſtringinge of your bovv […] you muſt mark the fit length of youre bovve. […] Yf it [the string] be longe, the bendynge muſt nedes be in the ſmal of the ſtring, vvhich beynge ſore tvvined muſte nedes knap in ſunder to yͤ diſtruction of manye good bovves.”

7. fiil To make a cracking or snapping sound; to crack, to snap.

   “If the Thigh-bone be luxated invvard, and the Patient young and of a tender Conſtitution, it may be reduced by the Hand of the Chirurgeon: […] [H]e 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.”

8. fiil To strike sharply.
9. fiil To speak crisply or sharply.
10. fiil To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.
11. isim A sudden, sharp blow, knock, or slap; a rap, a whack.
12. isim The sound made by such a blow, knock, or slap.

    “Foot Stomp […] 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.”

13. isim Synonym of chattering damsel (“a component of a traditional mill which creates a vibratory motion to impel portions of grain toward the millstone; a clapper”).
14. isim A method of cheating at a dice game.

    “'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?”

15. isim A piece of raised ground or a short, steep slope; a small hill; a hillock, a knoll.

    “[Y]ou ſhall ſee many fine ſeats ſet upon a knap of ground, environed vvith higher hills round about it; […]”

16. isim The crest or top of a hill.

    “the highest part and knap of the same Iland”

17. fiil To take a small, quick bite at or of (someone or something); to nibble, to nip, to snap.

    “I vvould ſhee vvere as lying goſſippe in that, as euer knapt Ginger, or made her neighbors beleeue ſhe vvept for the death of a third husband: […]”

18. fiil To take a small, quick bite.
19. fiil Obsolete spelling of nap (“to arrest (someone); to grab or nab (someone or something); to steal (something); (obsolete) to receive (severe punishment), especially during a boxing match or a flogging; (generally) to receive (something)”).

    “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.”