knappingn.
The action of knap v.1; the action of striking or knocking.
1. spec. a form of cheating in throwing dice (see quots., and cf. knap n.2 3).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > cheating
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1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. xvi. sig. R7 Knapping, is when you strike one Die dead.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 97 What chance of the Dye is soonest thrown, in topping, slurring, palming, napping.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 106 Assisting the Frail square Dye with high and low Fullums, and other Napping Tricks.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 283 Men talk of high and low dice..topping, knapping, slurring.
2. In modern local use: the action of breaking stones or flints.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > breaking stone
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stone-breaking1851
1835 T. Carlyle Let. 16 Feb. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1981) VIII. 49 Walk out of it then,—if even into knapping of stones.
1887 Mag. of Art X. 406 The third process, or ‘knapping’... Holding the flake or strip of flint with its face uppermost upon a ‘stake’ of iron [etc.].
1892 Daily News 2 Dec. 6/1 There has never been a cessation of the Brandon flint ‘knapping’.
Compounds
General attributive, as knapping-hammer, knapping-machine, knapping-tool.
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1786 R. Burns Poems 198 Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers.
1883 Archaeologia Cantiana 15 103 I have..discovered numerous flint hammers, and knapping tools.
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