Knap, Knop. (1) v. To chip stone, as formerly in making a gun-flint.—N.W. (2) n. A little hill; a steep ascent in a road (S.). This is really a Devon use.—S.W. (Dorset bord.)
Knee-sick. Of wheat, drooping at the joints, from weakness in the straw (D.).—N.W.
Knee-socked. Corn beaten down by storms is 'knee-socked down.'—N.W. See Knee-sick.
Knit. Of fruit, to set. 'The gooseberries be knitted a'ready.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Knitch, Nitch, Niche, &c. Usually spelt incorrectly, without the k. M.E. knucche, Germ. knocke: used by Wycliffe, also in Alton Locke, ch. xxviii. (1) Nitch, a burden of wood, straw, or hay (A.B.), such a faggot as a hedger or woodman may carry home with him at night; a short thick heavy chump of wood (Village Miners). Hence a fine baby is spoken of as 'a regular nitch' (Ibid.). A bundle of gleaned corn (S.).—N. & S.W. (2) 'He has got a nitch,' is intoxicated, has had as much liquor as he can carry (A.B.). Compare:—
'He's got his market-nitch.'—Tess of the D'Urbervilles, vol. i. p. 19.
Knot Couch. Avena elatior, so called from the roots sometimes looking like a much-knotted cord or a string of beads.—N.W.
Koomb. See Comb (S.).
Ladies-and-Gentlemen. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. Leades an Genlmin (S.).—N. & S.W.