▪ I. † knapple, knappel, n. Sc. Obs.
Also knappald, knapholt.
[Scotch variant of clappalde, -olde, clapholt; app. with substitution of knap for clap.]
= clapboard.
| 1496 Ld. 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. c 1575 Balfour's Practicks, Custumis (1754) 88 The great hundreth knapple, contenand xxiiij small hundrethis. 1661 Sc. Acts Chas. II, c. 33 (Jam.) That the whole coupers..make the said salmond barrels of good and sufficient new knappel. 1707 G. Miege St. Gt. Brit. ii. 30 Pitch, Steel-Kits, Knapple, Oak, Wainscoat. 1753 Maitland Hist. Edinb. iii. 248 For every hundred of Dantzic Knappel..4 pennies. [1898 Compt 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.
| 1611 Cotgr., Grignoter,..to gnaw, knaple, or nible away. 1847–78 Halliwell, 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.
| 1755 Johnson, Knapple, to break off with a sharp quick noise. Ainsworth. |