slang. or dial. Also knepper, napper. The knee.

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1764.  T. Brydges, Homer Travest. (1797), I. 237. The bully on his bare Kneppers knelt down. Ibid., II. 243. On his knappers down he dropp’d.

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1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Nappers, the knees.

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