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单词 knapper
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knappern.1

Forms: In 1500s -ar.
Etymology: Jamieson suggests derivation < knape n.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
‘A boor, a menial’ (Jamieson).
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
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gnoffc1405
fellowc1425
cavelc1430
haskardc1487
hastardc1489
foumart1508
strummel?a1513
knapper1513
hogshead?1518
jockeya1529
dreng1535
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Jack1548
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huddle and twang1578
sneaksby1580
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lowling1581
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patchcock1596
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sneaksbill1602
scum1607
turnspit1607
cocoloch1610
compeer1612
dust-worm1621
besonioa1625
world-worma1625
besognea1652
gippo1651
Jacky1653
mechanic1699
fustya1732
grub-worm1752
raff1778
person1782
rough scuff1816
spalpeen1817
bum1825
sculpin1834
soap-lock1840
tinka1843
'Arry1874
scruff1896
scruffo1959
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 121 Grathit lyke sum knappar [Camb. MS. gnappar].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

knappern.2

Etymology: < knap v.2 + -er suffix1.
Obsolete.
One who bites abruptly, or snaps.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 153 Off seme byttaris and beist gnapparis, Off stomok steillaris and cat knapparis.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rongeur, a gnawer, knapper, nibler.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

knappern.3

Brit. /ˈnapə/, U.S. /ˈnæpər/
Etymology: < knap v.1 + -er suffix1.
dialect and local.
1. One who or that which ‘knaps’; one who knaps or breaks stones, flints, or the like; esp. one whose occupation is the shaping of flints by strokes of a hammer.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with stone > [noun] > who breaks stones
stone-breaker1827
knapper1870
metallician1890
1870 Spectator 13 Aug. 976 They [sc. flints] then pass into the hands of the ‘knapper’. His implements are a small anvil, called a ‘stake’, set obliquely..and a ‘knapping~hammer’ of fine steel, of which the face is set obliquely also... One smart blow strikes off the rough end, another detaches a piece of the proper size for a gun-flint.
1894 Athenæum 27 Jan. 111/1 ‘Knapping’ flints, as practised on Brandon Heath, in Suffolk, is exceedingly hard work, though there the ‘knapper’ labours for ‘his own hand’.
2. A hammer used for shaping flints; also, Scottish a stone-breaker's hammer; a knapping-hammer.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > hammer for use on stone
pick1357
kevel-mell1360
stone-hammer1411
knapper1787
walling hammer1841
marteline1875
bush-hammer1885
1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess iv. i A finer lad..ne'er cocked his knapper to the lift.
1882 Athenæum 16 Dec. 818/1 Palæolithic implements,..together with the flint tools, or knappers, by which they were shaped.
1882 Athenæum 16 Dec. 818/2 Neolithic knappers were shown,..with knapping hammers of the seventeenth or eighteenth century.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

knappern.4

Brit. /ˈnapə/, U.S. /ˈnæpər/
Forms: Also knepper, napper.
slang. or dialect.
The knee.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [noun]
kneec825
knop14..
marrowbone1506
gigot1687
knapper1767
prayer-bones1877
bender1925
knobblies1953
1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) I. v. 157 The bully on his bare Kneppers knelt down.
1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. x. 157 On his knappers down he dropt.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Nappers, the knees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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