† Knapple, knappel

sb. Sc. Obs. Also knappald, knapholt. [Scotch variant of clappalde, -olde, CLAPHOLT; app. with substitution of knap for clap.] = CLAPBOARD.

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1496. Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., I. 285. Item, for leding of ix^e knapholtis furth of Leith to the Castel of Edinburgh … iijs. iiijd. Ibid., 278. Item … for ix^e knappaldis … iiij li. xs.

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c. 1575. Balfour’s Practicks, Custumis (1754), 88. The great hundreth knapple, contenand xxiiij small hundrethis.

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1661. Sc. Acts Chas. II., c. 33 (Jam.). That the whole coupers … make the said salmond barrels of good and sufficient new knappel.

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1707. G. Miége, St. Gt. Brit., II. 30. Pitch, Steel-Kits, Knapple, Oak, Wainscoat.

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1753. Maitland, Hist. Edin., III. 248/1. For every hundred of Dantzick Knappell,… Foour pennies.

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[1898. Compt Buik Dav. Wedderburne (S.H.S.), Introd. 44. The Norwegian timber consisted of … roofspars, knapholt and burnwood.]

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