Sc. Obs. app. an altered form of prec.; conformed to cap.

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a. 1802.  Jamie Telfer, xxxv. in Child, Ballads, VII. cxc. (1890), 7/2. Willie was stricken ower the head, And through the knapscap the sword has gane.

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1830.  R. Chambers, Jas. I., I. iii. 94. We find … knapscaps burnished up.

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