knap

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

knap, n. [AS. cnæp, cnæpp, top, knob, button; cf. Icel. knappr knob, Sw. knapp, Dan. knap button, W., Gael., & Ir. cnap knob, button, and E. knop.].

 A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.  [1913 Webster]
"The highest part and knap of the same island."  [1913 Webster]

knap, v. t. [D. knappen to chew, bite, crack, take hold of; prob. of imitative origin.].

•  To bite; to bite off; to break short.  [1913 Webster]

  "He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth."  [1913 Webster]

  "He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder."  [1913 Webster]
•  To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

knap, v. i. 

 To make a sound of snapping.  Wiseman.  [1913 Webster]

knap, n. 

 A sharp blow or slap.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

knap, n. chiefly dial. the crest of a hill or of rising ground.

knap, v.tr. (knapped, knapping)
1 break (stones for roads or building, flints, or Austral. ore) with a hammer.
2 archaic knock, rap, snap asunder.

Derivative

knapper n.

Etymology

ME, imit.

ROGET THESAURUS

knap

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.