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Definition of Knaps
1. knap [v] - See also: knap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knaps
Literary usage of Knaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"Interview with Botma.—Meeting of the Glasgow Missionaries.—knaps Hope.— Convictions
of Sin.—Caffer Labour.— Mode of preventing horses from being stolen. ..."
2. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Newbury (Mass.) (1911)
"Sarah, Mrs., and Ebenezer knaps, Nov. 15, 1743.* Susanna, and John Pearson [jr.
int.], Oct. 29, 1747.* Susanna, and Benjamin Cooper, Oct. 23, 1754. ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"number of knaps which formerly existed in it, but which, owing to the superior
... Until of late, a long line of these knaps could be distinctly traced, ..."
4. Merchant and Craft Guilds: A History of the Aberdeen Incorporated Trades by Ebenezer Bain (1887)
"and all the knaps to be mounted with gilded leather, and the hinger to have ane
knap. Plumbers.—A sheet of lead twelve feet long and three feet broad ..."
5. The Book of Ellon by Alexander Inkson McConnochie (1901)
"It lies on the march between two estates. " knaps" is a name applied to hard
rocky or gravelly hillocks. Thus we have knaps Leask, knaps of Waterton, ..."
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