Definition of "knapping" []

• Present participle of knap. (verb)

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• "They get arrested for sleigh-knapping, which is a serious offense in these parts."
• "A knifemaker used a process called knapping, a throwback method of shaping stones into useful tools, to form it."
• "Breaking bells, twisting knockers, and "knapping" rail-heads, has descended so low of late that the fast fellows are ashamed of it, and have resigned it to the medical students, patriotic young members of"