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knap

[nap]

noun British Dialect.

a crest or summit of a small hill.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English cnæpp top, summit; cognate with Old Norse knappr knob

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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verb (used without object), verb (used with object), knapped, knap·ping. Chiefly British Dialect.

to strike smartly; rap.

to break off abruptly.

to chip or become chipped, as a flint or stone.

to bite suddenly or quickly.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English; cognate with Dutch knap (noun), knappen (v.) crack; orig. imitative

Related forms

knap·per, noun

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knap¹ (næp)

—n
	dialect the crest of a hill

[Old English cnæpp top; compare Old Norse knappr knob]

knap² (næp)

—vb , knaps, knapping, knapped
	dialect (tr) to hit, hammer, or chip

[C15 (in the sense: to strike with a sharp sound): of imitative origin; compare Dutch knappen to crack]

'knapper²

—n

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