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Definition of Knappers
1. knapper [n] - See also: knapper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knappers
Literary usage of Knappers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"The tools and weapons of this early period were of flint, flaked to a point or
an edge, an art still practised by the " flint knappers " of Suffolk, ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1883)
"The action of the hammers and knappers was analyzed and imitated ... For comparisons
Neolithic knappers were shewn, and gun flints with knapping hammers of ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"... tools or knappers by which they were shaped. Of the hammers, some were pointed
at one end and some flat-headed, being "used" at the edges of the face. ..."
4. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"cí» Cha. II.—Isl. knapp-r, rigidus, q. hard wood. knappers, ». pi. The mast of
oak, 4c. "Glandes, knappers. ..."
5. Highways and Byways in East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1901)
"So one is inclined to doubt the statement of those who say that some of the terms
still employed by the knappers are "relics of the Neolithic language. ..."
6. Norfolk by William Alfred Dutt (1900)
"The present-day knappers devote most of their time to the fashioning of ornamental
flint-work for decorative building, but some of them, as I have said, ..."
7. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"knappers, sb. i. A shield or protection for the front of the thighs, composed of
a flap of leather strengthened with vertical pieces of flattened wood, ..."
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