knap
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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
Ariane Burke, an archeozoologist at the University of Montreal, said she was also struck by the absence of knapped stone tools.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2017
This every-which-way process has been at work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hanúmán caught it as it flew, And knapped it on his knee in two.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The walls are well built, three feet in thickness, and constructed of uncut flints; the east end is enriched with diaper-work in chequers of stone and knapped flint.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
The ash staves knapped with a shriek, and flew in splinters about the field.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
This method of shaping stone is known as "knapping."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
By that time, toolmakers were already skilled at knapping.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2023
It was there that he learned flint knapping, the shaping of stone to make tools.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2021
Meanwhile, in the backyard, Clark leads an impromptu flint knapping lesson, using obsidian nodules strewn about the lawn.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2018
Turpin treated him as he had done the dub at the knapping jigger, and cleared the driver and his little wain with ease.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
