knab

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /næb/ Rhymes: -æb === Etymology 1 === See nab, and compare knap. ==== Verb ==== knab (third-person singular simple present knabs, present participle knabbing, simple past and past participle knabbed) (colloquial) To nab or steal. (obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw or bite. ==== References ==== “knab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Etymology 2 === See nab, knob (in the sense of a rounded hill). ==== Noun ==== knab (plural knabs) (chiefly Northumbria, archaic) A hill. (Scotland, Shetland, Orkney) a promontory or headland === Anagrams === Bank, bank, nabk == Dutch == === Etymology === Pertaining to the group of words for thick objects with initial kn- such as knobbel, knoop, knuppel. Cognate with western German Knäppchen (“heel of bread”). === Noun === knab ? (plural knabben, diminutive knabbetje n) (dialectal, parts of southern and eastern Netherlands) lump, thick piece (e.g. of wood or bread)