knap

Example Sentences

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It was easy to knap, or to flake off, pieces into utilitarian shapes and didn’t need to be tempered or treated with heat as some tool stones do.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Our Paleolithic ancestors learned to knap delicate blades from round stone cobbles, hunt large game and cook their food.

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

The course was jointly led by Ojibwe elders, who taught him how to knap flint, tan hides and build wigwams.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Cul-de-Sac was shot in a 13th century fortress perched on a precipitous knap that rises out of Holy Island, a dot in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Twenty between us. Not nearly enough. Do you know how to knap flint?’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver