Sc. Obs. app. an altered form of prec.; conformed to cap.
 
a. 1802.  Jamie Telfer, xxxv. in Child, Ballads, VII. cxc. (1890), 7/2. Willie was stricken ower the head, And through the knapscap the sword has gane.
 
1830.  R. Chambers, Jas. I., I. iii. 94. We find 
 knapscaps burnished up.