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Webster 1913 Edition


Knag

Knag

(năg)
,
Noun.
[Cf. Prov. G.
knagge
a knot in wood, Sw.
knagg
, Dan.
knag
a hook to hand clothes on, a bracket; Gael. & Ir.
cnag
peg, knob.]
1.
A knot in wood; a protuberance.
Wright.
2.
A wooden peg for hanging things on.
Wright.
3.
The prong of an antler.
Holland.
4.
The rugged top of a hill.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Knag

KNAG

,
Noun.
nag.
1.
A knot in wood, or a protuberant knot; a wart.
2.
A peg for hanging things on.
3.
The shoot of a deer's horns.

Definition 2024


knag

knag

English

Alternative forms

Noun

knag (plural knags)

  1. A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir
  2. A peg or hook for hanging something on
  3. (obsolete) One of the points of a stag's horn or a tine
  4. A knot in a piece of wood or the base of a branch
  5. A pointed rock or crag
  6. (Scotland) A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin
  7. (Scotland, obsolete) The woodpecker

Verb

knag (third-person singular simple present knags, present participle knagging, simple past and past participle knagged)

  1. To hang something on a peg
  2. (video games, slang) To kill (a player character) who ganked you

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

knag n (singular definite knaget, plural indefinite knag)

  1. creak

Synonyms

Inflection

Noun

knag c (singular definite knagen, plural indefinite knage)

  1. dab, dab hand

Inflection

Verb

knag

  1. imperative of knage