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440 [hnap]. — and [k‘napi], [hnapi], are found as place-names, names of hills: de Knapps (, Taft, ). de Knappis or Hnappis. de Knappis o’ Stabaness, two rocky heights. — knappr ( hnappr), , a knob, round top; in place-names “knapp”,, inter alia denotes mountain-top, crag. and knap,, a knob, protuberance; hillock. $w$,

knark, knjark [(kᶇa‘rk) k‘ᶇa‘rk], , a) creaking sound; b) loud and noisy gnawing, crushing between the teeth; c) a snatching with the teeth, a bite, and  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): See the  word.

knark, knjark [(kᶇa‘rk) k‘ᶇa‘rk], , 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” ; to k. a sugar-lump; de dog is de  ; d) to snatch with the teeth, making quick bites. Also [hᶇa‘rk], reported in the senses a and b. — knarrka, , to creak, and : to chew something which produces a crunching sound, knarka,, a) to creak (Aa.); b) to gnaw (to grin; growl) (R.). —  and ,

knarp [kna‘rp, k‘ᶇa‘rp],, = ,, in sense

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

knav [k‘nāv, k'ᶇāv],, a) to gnaw off, meat from a bone; de dog is  de ; b) to scrape off, encrustation from the inside of a kettle. . knavla (from *knava,  *knafa), , to importune, plague, to gnaw, and see ,

knavi [knāvi],, tabu-name, sea-term for cod. Parallel form to, ;  For the form , cnafa, = (old) cnapa, , a boy, knave.

kne [knē, k‘nē],, 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’]. , the knee,  kné, In proper sense, knee, the [kni̇̄, older: k‘ni̇̄] is now always used. From 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. — knee-head,

kned [knēd, knē$2$d],, to a sheep’s ear: marked with a (a slanting cut above in the side of the ear); a k. lug [‘ear’]; k. afore, k. ahint [‘behind’]. , See ,

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

†knee-head [hni̇̄·hɛd·],, in a boat: a knee, knee-timber, which below is scarfed together with the frame-timber or cross-timber, de, 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. — “knee-timber-head, or frame-timber-head”. kné,, the knee,