Obs. [f. KNOP sb.1]
1. trans. To furnish or adorn with knops; to stud.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 7260. High shoes knopped with dagges.
1483. Cath. Angl., 205/2. To Knoppe, bullare.
1505. Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. (1901), III. 40. For ij pypanes blak silk to knop the said hat.
1539. in Inv. R. Wardrobe (1815), 52. Ane capparisone … bordourit with silvir and knoppit with silvir & yallow silk.
2. intr. To put forth ‘knops,’ to bud. Sc.
a. 1584. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 40. Sum knopping, sum dropping Of balmie liquor sweit.
c. 1600. Burel, Pilgr., in Watson, Coll. Sc. Poems (1706), II. 23. Ranie Orion, That dropit and knopit, Baith upon tre and stone.
Knop, obs. form of KNAP sb.1, v.1
