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

You see a guy reading a newspaper while driving, and he might as well be flint knapping.

From Washington Post

Mr. Berlant has acquired a suite of stones from Fontmaure, France, which Neanderthals supposedly chipped and knapped to accentuate the faces they saw in them.

From New York Times

The tools were fashioned with a relatively sophisticated method of stone knapping called the Levallois technique, which requires skill and forethought and allows greater control over the resulting scrapers or blades.

From National Geographic

Here, in a huge cave by the Mediterranean Sea, ancient people roasted hare, turtle, and ostrich eggs and knapped stone tools from flint.

From Science Magazine