knapper
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈnæpər/
- Specialized
- During the workshop, a master knapper demonstrated how to create tools from stone.
- flint knapper
- a skilled knapper
Examples
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The nicks on the hard oval stone indicated its long use, and the experienced flint knapper found it difficult to imagine anyone dropping and leaving a favored tool.
Fiction book (1990) -
They're crowded with members of various tribes: children are playing, flint-knappers are fashioning tools, and women are cooking.
Fiction book (1996) -
It should have been just a tap, but it landed off the mark and too hard... as though the knapper was suddenly interrupted.
Fiction book (1990) -
Finally, they arrived on the flint knappers' terrace.
Fiction book (1993) -
This was the flint knappers' terrace.
Fiction book (1993) -
It took an archaeologist and a skilled flint-knapper to point out the larger possibilities.
Academic text (2008) -
The finest flint knapper among the People, he studied the head-sized boulders, judging the stone with a practiced eye before driving off thick wedges of the rock.
Fiction book (1990) -
They were typical of the kind his people used, but he had learned how to make the flint-tipped Mamutoi spears as well, and because he was a skilled flint knapper, they were faster for him to make than shaping and smoothing bone points.
Fiction book (1990) -
The skilled knapper carefully shaped the flint into a sharp point for use in hunting.
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In ancient times, a knapper was essential in making weapons for hunting and defense.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who makes useful or decorative things by hand
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6.7
A worker who cuts and shapes stone for building and repair
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6.5
A person who cuts and shapes stone for buildings or sculpture
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4.6
An artist who cuts and shapes materials like wood and stone to make sculptures
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word knapper comes from the old verb knap, which means 'to chip off' or 'break by striking' and is like the familiar word 'knock'; so a knapper is someone who shapes stone by hitting and chipping it to make tools.