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- noun Plural form of
knapper .
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Examples
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There are many flint knappers today who can make beautiful points and tools.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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There are many flint knappers today who can make beautiful points and tools.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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There are many flint knappers today who can make beautiful points and tools.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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There are many flint knappers today who can make beautiful points and tools.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Although it wouldn't surprise me to find there are currently more expert flint knappers than there ever have been.
White Man EAGEAGEAG 2009
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Abetted by training from the man to whom his mother had been mated when he was born, who was acknowledged as the best in his field, Jondalar was a skilled maker of stone tools who had honed his craft on his Journey by learning the techniques of other flint knappers.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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There had to be some flint knappers in the region who could train Doban.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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As she began to preshape the flint in the Clan way, and the Mamutoi flint knappers realized what she was doing, they were eager to watch, and crowded as close as they dared.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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Jondalar was talking with Wymez and Danug, and she had no doubts as to the subject of the conversation of the three flint knappers.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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A Knapper may have lived on a "knap," or may have been one of the Suffolk flint-knappers, who still prepare gun-flints for weapons to be retailed to the heathen.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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