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Knag

Knag \Knag\ (n[a^]g), n. [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.

Wiktionary
knag

alt. 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 (context obsolete English) 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 (context Scotland English) A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin 7 (context Scotland obsolete English) The woodpecker n. 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 (context obsolete English) 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 (context Scotland English) A small cask or barrel; a keg or noggin 7 (context Scotland obsolete English) The woodpecker vb. 1 To hang something on a peg 2 (context video games slang English) To kill (a player character) who ganked you

Usage examples of "knag".

The third problem was who Hilde Moller Knag could be, and why Sophie had been sent her birthday card.

When her mother got home from work that afternoon Sophie was sitting in the glider, pondering the possible connection between the philosophy course and Hilde Moller Knag, who would not be getting a birthday card from her father.

Anyway, there was no doubt at all that the girl in her dream was Hilde Moller Knag and that the man was her father, home from Lebanon.

Moller Knag lives in Lillesand and is exactly the same age as Sophie Amundsen.

It was close to midnight before Major Albert Knag called home to wish Hilde a happy birthday.

Hilde Moller Knag jumped out of bed with the bulky ring binder in her arms.

Her name is Hilde Mailer Knag, and she was fifteen years old on the same day as Sophie.

Major Albert Knag had just landed at Kastrup Airport outside Copenhagen.

Major Albert Knag had a nearly three-hour wait in the airport before his plane left for Kristiansand.

To Major Knag, as he hands over his boarding pass at Kastrup on Midsummer Eve, 1990.

When he was dropped off outside the gate at Bjerkely, Albert Knag heaved a sigh of relief, and thanked the driver with a hundred crown note and three cans of Carlsberg Elephant beer.

The bonnets were no sooner fairly on, than Miss Knag and Madame Mantalini fell into convulsions of admiration.

Miss Knag vanished without another word, and in all reasonable time was replaced by Kate, who took off the new bonnets and put on the old ones: blushing very much to find that the old lord and the two young ladies were staring her out of countenance all the time.