knap

Etymology 1
From (verb) and  (noun), an.

Verb

 * 1)  To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point.
 * 2)  To rap or strike sharply.
 * 3) * 1820, The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, volume 8, no.43, page 81, October 1820.
 * Some entered the ring in very bad condition, and immediately got a-piping, like hot mutton pies - fell on their own blows, and knapped it every round, till they shewed the white feather and bolted.
 * 1)  To bite; to bite off; to break short.
 * 2) * Psalms xlvi. 9
 * He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder.
 * 1) To make a sound of snapping.
 * He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder.
 * 1) To make a sound of snapping.
 * 1) To make a sound of snapping.

Usage notes
(to shape a brittle material) In modern usage knap is restricted to the specific technique of percussion flaking whereby flakes are removed across an entire face or facet leaving a conchoidal fracture. It is distinguished from the more general verb and is different from "carve" (removing only part of a face), and "cleave" (breaking along a natural plane). The term is used in archaeology for the production of flaked stone tools and in gunsmithing for the production of gunflints. Knap is rarely used in stonemasonry except to denote fine chipping done with smaller hammers but without the chisel.

Noun

 * 1) A sharp blow or slap.

Etymology 2
From, from , akin to.

Noun

 * 1) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob.
 * 2) The crest of a hill
 * 3) A small hill
 * 1) A small hill

Etymology 1
Probably from, otherwise related to it. Further cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) scant, scarce
 * 2) brief, concise

Adverb

 * 1) hardly, scarcely
 * 2) just under
 * 3) barely

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) button (in clothes etc.)
 * 2) button (in machines)

Etymology 1
Ca. 1500. A word originally found only in Dutch and Low German; compare 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all “scarce, scant”, also “tight-fitting, small” (of clothes). From the last, Dutch derived “attractive, pretty”, which was then further generalised; cf. semantically.

Further origin. Perhaps comparable to 🇨🇬,, in the sense of "tight-fitting, shapely."

Adjective

 * 1) attractive, handsome, pretty
 * 2) impressive, decent, rather good or big
 * 3) smart, intelligent, gifted, clever
 * 4)  lissom, agile, brisk, fresh
 * 5)  tight-fitting, shapely
 * 6)  tight (of a budget), scarce
 * 1)  lissom, agile, brisk, fresh
 * 2)  tight-fitting, shapely
 * 3)  tight (of a budget), scarce
 * 1)  tight (of a budget), scarce

Adverb

 * 1) quite, rather, pretty (reinforces what follows)

Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1)  narrowly, just, barely, merely

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
Possibly onomatopoeic.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  tight

Adverb

 * 1)  tightly, barely

Noun

 * 1)  cleat