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Knap sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Knap sb.1 Forms: α. 1 cnæpp, cnepp, 1–2 cnæp, 6 knappe, (knape), 7 knapp, 6– knap, (7, 9 nap). β. knop. [OE. cnæp(p, top, summit (of a hill); perh. cognate with ON. knapp-r knob, head of a stick, button, etc. (see KNOP sb.1). Irish, Gael. and Welsh cnap, knob, knop, boss, button, lump, knap, hillock, knoll, may be from Norse or Eng.]

1   1.  The head, crest or summit of a hill; a small hill, hillock or knoll; a rising ground; a short steep ascent. Chiefly dial. (Cf. KNOB sb.2, NAB.)

2   α.  c. 1000.  Ælfric, Exod. xix. 20. Drihten eode uppan þæs muntes cnæp.

3 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke iv. 29. Hiʓ … læddon hine ofer ðæs muntes cnæpp.

4 1538.  Leland, Itin., I. 109. The Castelle … standith … on the very Knape of an highe Hille, stepe up eche way.

5 1600.  F. Walker, Sp. Mandeville, 102 b. Three men setting vp a poast, vpon a little knap close by the high-way.

6 1685.  1st Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899), II. 176. To the first Pine Tree upon the knap or Hill by Stony Brooke side.

7 1778.  Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), s.v. Knebworth, Its situation is on a hill or knap, from whence it has its name.

8 1876.  T. Hardy, Ethelberta, II. xlvi. 235. ‘Now where’s the inn?’ said Mountclere…. ‘Just on the knap,’ Sol answered.

9 1887.  Cycl. Tour. Club Gaz., 215/2. With the exception of a steepish knap on leaving the Doubs Valley,… the road was good and nearly level.

10 1893.  ‘Q.’ [Quiller-Couch], Delect. Duchy, 19. A … pathway … winding … around the knap of a green hill.

11   β.  a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 136. The toune of Auraunches, standyng upon the knop of an hill.

12 1623.  Bingham, Xenophon, 62. There remained yet a little knop aboue them … where the enemies guards did sit.

13   2.  fig. Knap of the case (obs. Rogues’ Cant), the head or goodman of the house. [Doubtfully placed here.]

14 c. 1550.  Dice-Play (Percy Soc.), 29. The knapp of the case, the goodman of the house calleth secretly unto him the third person. Ibid., 34. A reward unto her by knap of the case, & the cut-throats his accomplices.

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