knap it

present singular third person knaps it · participle present knapping it · participle past knapped it · past knapped it

1. obsoleteslangSynonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).

   KNAP […] Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed.

   1867, William Henry Smyth, Sir Edward Belcher, The Sailor's Word-book, page 424

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   Some of these times you'll knap it nastily; it isn't every one as falls in love with half a Bullock at the least, and all the tallow in the face.

   1843, Francis Higginson, The Smugglers, page 114

   Synonyms: catch it