Knap

Quick meaning: Knap is a verb meaning To break (something) into small pieces with a cracking sound; to fragment, to smash; also, to break (something) apart sharply; to snap.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To strike (something) sharply; to knock, to rap.
2. Followed by off: to break (something) away from another thing by striking or tapping sharply.
3. To say (something) crisply or sharply.
4. To break or fracture suddenly; to snap.
5. To make a cracking or snapping sound; to crack, to snap.
6. To strike sharply.
7. To speak crisply or sharply.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

[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.

Word Forms

• knaps
• knapping
• knapped
• knappest
• knappedst
• knappeth

Synonyms for knap

Depending on context, synonyms include knack, rap, cut off, chip, break off.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chip, cut off, rap, break off, sack, knout.

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