"knab" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See nab, and compare knap.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knabs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knab (third-person singular simple present knabs, present participle knabbing, simple past and past participle knabbed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To nab or steal."
      ],
      "id": "en-knab-en-verb-o-OEKFKU",
      "links": [
        [
          "nab",
          "nab"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To nab or steal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "a Mouthful of Fresh Grats to Knab upon",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seize with the teeth; to gnaw."
      ],
      "id": "en-knab-en-verb-E4wnpL3e",
      "links": [
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ],
        [
          "gnaw",
          "gnaw"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/næb/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æb"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knab"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/æb",
    "Rhymes:English/æb/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See nab, and compare knap.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knabs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knabbed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knab (third-person singular simple present knabs, present participle knabbing, simple past and past participle knabbed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To nab or steal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nab",
          "nab"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To nab or steal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "a Mouthful of Fresh Grats to Knab upon",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seize with the teeth; to gnaw."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ],
        [
          "gnaw",
          "gnaw"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/næb/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æb"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knab"
}