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▪ I. † knapple, knappel, n. Sc. Obs.
Also knappald, knapholt.
[Scotch variant of clappalde, -olde, clapholt; app. with substitution of knap for clap.]
= clapboard.
1496Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. I. 285 Item, for leding of ix⊇ knapholtis furth of Leith to the Castel of Edinburgh..iijs. iiijd. Ibid. 278 Item..for ix⊇ knappaldis..iiij li. xs. c1575Balfour's Practicks, Custumis (1754) 88 The great hundreth knapple, contenand xxiiij small hundrethis. 1661Sc. Acts Chas. II, c. 33 (Jam.) That the whole coupers..make the said salmond barrels of good and sufficient new knappel. 1707G. Miege St. Gt. Brit. ii. 30 Pitch, Steel-Kits, Knapple, Oak, Wainscoat. 1753Maitland Hist. Edinb. iii. 248 For every hundred of Dantzic Knappel..4 pennies. [1898Compt Buik Dav. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) Introd. 44 The Norwegian timber consisted of..roofspars, knapholt and burnwood.]
▪ II. † ˈknapple, v.1 Obs.
In 7 knaple.
[Frequentative of knap v.2: see -le and cf. knabble.]
To bite shortly and repeatedly; to nibble.
1611Cotgr., Grignoter,..to gnaw, knaple, or nible away. 1847–78Halliwell, Knapple, to bite, or nibble. North.
▪ III. † ˈknapple, v.2 Obs. rare—0.
[Frequentative of knap v.1; see -le.]
= knap v.1 2, 3.
1755Johnson, Knapple, to break off with a sharp quick noise. Ainsworth. |