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- verb Present participle of
knap .
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Examples
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They get arrested for sleigh-knapping, which is a serious offense in these parts.
New England Sleigh Ride Jacqueline T Lynch 2007
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They get arrested for sleigh-knapping, which is a serious offense in these parts.
Archive 2007-11-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007
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A knifemaker used a process called knapping, a throwback method of shaping stones into useful tools, to form it.
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Breaking bells, twisting knockers, and "knapping" rail-heads, has descended so low of late that the fast fellows are ashamed of it, and have resigned it to the medical students, patriotic young members of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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From knapping flint into arrowheads, to those ponderous early printing presses which slowly turned out thousands of printed pages, to the extraordinary phone/computer/camera which now sits in our pockets, humans are definitely tool-making critters.
Ken White: New Digs for the Dogs, And Everyone Else Ken White 2011
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She told me that the reason she fell in love with anthro was because of a flint knapping demonstration by one of her professors.
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An ancient craftsman once sat there using his favorite tool knapping points out of some valuable imported flint he had to trade for.
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Some rocks are better for knapping, some metals make better swords.
mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010
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An ancient craftsman once sat there using his favorite tool knapping points out of some valuable imported flint he had to trade for.
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To learn new skills such as bow-making, flint-knapping and reindeer hunting.
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