An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 471
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 471
KNAP, _s._ A slight stroke, S.
_Ramsay._
KNAPE, _s._
1. A servant.
_Douglas._
2. As equivalent to _valet_.
_Douglas._
A. S. _cnapa_, Teut. _knape_, puer, servus.
~Knappare~, _s._ A boor.
_Douglas._
KNAPPARTS, _s. pl._ Heath pease, S. B.
Teut. _knappen_, mandere, and _worte_, radix.
KNAPPEL, _s._ Oak for staves, brought from Memel, Dantzick, &c, S.
_Acts Cha. II._
Isl. _knapp-r_, rigidus, q. hard wood.
KNAPPISH, _adj._ Tart, snappish.
Teut. _knapp-en_, to bite.
_Z. Boyd._
KNAPSCHA, KNAPISHAY, KNAPSKALL, _s._ A headpiece.
_Stat. Rob. I._
Su. G. _knape_, a servant, and _skal_, a sh.e.l.l, a covering.
_To_ KNASH, _v. a._ To gnaw.
_Watson._
Isl. _knatsk-a_, arrodo.
_To_ KNAW, KNAWE, _v. a._ To know.
A. S. _cnaw-an_, id.
_Wyntown._
KNAW, KNAWE, KNAIE, _s._
1. A male child.
_Wyntown._
2. A male under age.
_Barbour._
3. A male servant.
_Wyntown._
4. A man in an inferior rank.
V. ~Knape~.
_Bannatyne Poems._
~Knawship~, ~Knaveship~, _of a mill_, the dues given by those who have grain ground, for paying the servants in a mill, vulgarly _kneeship_, S.
_Erskine._
Teut. _knaep-schaep_, servitus.
KNECHT, KNYCHT, _s._
1. A common soldier.
_Douglas._
2. A commander.
_Douglas._
Franc. _knecht_, A. S. _cneoht_, a boy, a servant.