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hnapp [hnap]. — knapp and knappi [k‘napi], hnappi [hnapi], are found as place-names, names of hills: de Knapps (Sa., Taft, Ai.). de Knappis or Hnappis (Ti.). de Knappis o’ Stabaness (M.Roe, De^w.), two rocky heights. — O.N. knappr (Icel. hnappr), m., a knob, round top; in Norw. place-names “knapp”, m., inter alia denotes mountain-top, crag. Eng. and L.Sc. knap, sb., a knob, protuberance; hillock. Cf. snapp², sb.

knark, knjark [(kᶇa‘rk) k‘ᶇa‘rk], sb., a) creaking sound; b) loud and noisy gnawing, crushing between the teeth; c) a snatching with the teeth, a bite, esp. and prop. in producing a chattering or creaking sound with the teeth; de horses ga’e [‘gave’] a k. de ane at de tidder [‘the one at the other’], the horses snapped at each other (as if to bite): Uⁿ. See the foll. word.

knark, knjark [(kᶇa‘rk) k‘ᶇa‘rk], vb., a) to emit a creaking sound; b) to rub two rough and hard objects against each other, producing a creaking sound; c) to gnaw loudly, to crunch between the teeth; also mockingly of hasty and greedy eating; to k. and “snite” (Uⁿ.); to k. a sugar-lump; de dog is kn(j)arkin op de bens (Uⁿ.); d) to snatch with the teeth, making quick bites. Also hn(j)ark [hᶇa‘rk] (Easts.), reported in the senses a and b. — Sw. knarrka, vb., to creak, and dial.: to chew something which produces a crunching sound, No. knarka, vb., a) to creak (Aa.); b) to gnaw (to grin; growl) (R.). — Cf. knirk and snirk, vbs.

knarp [kna‘rp, k‘ᶇa‘rp], sb., = knark, sb., esp. in sense c. U.

knarp [kna‘rp, k‘ᶇa‘rp], vb., = knark, vb., esp. in the senses c and d. U. The word is doubtless a deriv. of *knarra in the same way as knark.

knav [k‘nāv, k'ᶇāv], vb., a) to gnaw off, e.g. meat from a bone; de dog is knavin de ben; b) to scrape off, e.g. encrustation from the inside of a kettle. Nmⁿ. (N.Roe). Cf. No. knavla (from *knava, orig. *knafa), vb., to importune, plague, prop. to gnaw, and see knab, vb.

knavi [knāvi], sb., tabu-name, sea-term for cod. Fo. Parallel form to knabi, sb.; q.v. For the form knavi, cf. A.S. cnafa, = (old) cnapa, m., a boy, Eng. knave.

kne [knē, k‘nē], sb., ear-mark in sheep: a slanting cut down from the top of the ear, a piece cut on the slant out of a sheep’s ear; a k. afore, a k. ahint [‘behind’]. U., Y^{h., b}. Prop. the knee, O.N. kné, n. In proper sense, knee, the Eng. pronunc. [kni̇̄, older: k‘ni̇̄] is now always used. From Conn. is reported “knee” in sense of knee of a plough (the old wooden plough), the bend in the plough-beam into which the plough-share fits. — Cf. knee-head, sb.

kned [knēd, knē^əd], adj., appl. to a sheep’s ear: marked with a kne (a slanting cut above in the side of the ear); a k. lug [‘ear’]; k. afore, k. ahint [‘behind’]. U., Y^{h., b}. See kne, sb.

knee-buks [kni̇̄·boks·], vb., to keep a vanquished man down by placing one’s knee on his abdomen; see buks, vb.

†knee-head [hni̇̄·hɛd·], sb., in a boat: a knee, knee-timber, which below is scarfed together with the frame-timber or cross-timber, de band, and above is scarfed into the cleft end of the thwart, de taft. Between two opposite “knee-heads”, and resting on top of each, is fastened a cross-beam (bekk, fastiband, hadiband) underneath the thwart. — Prop. “knee-timber-head, or frame-timber-head”. O.N. kné, n., the knee,