knap it

verb

verb

Obsolete, Slang Synonym of catch it (“to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten”).

KNAP […] Also, a blow or correction, as "you'll knap it," for some misdeed.1867, William Henry Smyth, Sir Edward Belcher, The Sailor's Word-book, page 424:
Some of these times you'll knap it nastily; it isn't every one as falls in love with half a Bullock at the least, and all the tallow in the face.1843, Francis Higginson, The Smugglers, page 114:

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