Obs. [Cf. KNACK sb.2 1.] A trickster, deceiver.

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 156. He þat … can helpe to anoie a pore man by knackis or chapitris … siche knackeris ben as proude of here veyn kunnynge as lucifer.

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