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knorr

knorr is the alternative form of knarr.

Meaning of knarr

Noun

knarr (plural knarrs)

  1. (historical) A kind of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings.
    • Mogens and Morten followed him on the two knarrs, but behind them to the north two other ships could be sighted.2003, James Richard Larson, The Eye of Odin, page 341
  2. A type of modern long-keeled sailing boat.
    • This summer, one of these Knarrs is being delivered to Johannes Westergaard of New York, and another to Gerhard Lorenz of the Grosse Isle Yacht Club, Michigan.1954 June, Motor Boating, page 100

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Proper noun capitalized: Knorr

Knorr (plural Knorrs)

  1. A surname.
    • […] K-N-O-R-R, a very strange name indeed, […]1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 40–41

Forms of knorr

Noun
pluralknorrs
Proper noun
pluralKnorrs

Origin of knorr

Learned borrowing from Old Norse knǫrr.

From the Dutch and German surname, from the root of Middle Dutch and Middle Low German cnorre, knorre (“protruberance, knot”). See gnarled.

Questions about knorr

What does knorr mean?
Knorr means a surname.
What is knorr the alternative form of?
Knorr is the alternative form of knarr.
What part of speech is knorr?
Knorr is a proper noun.

Words near knorr in the dictionary

  1. knorhaans
  2. knork
  3. knorks
  4. Knoroz
  5. Knorpelwerk
  6. knorr
  7. knorringite
  8. knorringites
  9. Knorrit Flat
  10. Knorrit Forest
  11. knorrs

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