north. dial. [Origin obscure.] A large wooden tub.
α. 1563. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 169. A kneadinge bassyn, a knoppe, a gielfatte.
1588. Lanc. Wills (1857), II. 75. The great brewinge knopp.
1614. Inv., in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Arch. Soc., III. 114. One knopp one handle 2 salt pres dishes.
1802. in Anderson, Cumbld. Ball., 51. I dung owre the knop.
β. 1614. Inv., in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Arch. Soc., III. 114. In the butterye 3 barrells 2 staues one Knapp.
1821. Blackw. Mag., VIII. 432. But stoups are needed, tubs, and pails, and knaps.
