Definition of knock

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Knock (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door..

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Knock :: Knock (n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
Clicket :: Clicket (n.) The knocker of a door.
Knock :: Knock (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap..
Knock-kneed :: Knock-kneed (a.) Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent..
Kotow :: Kotow (n.) The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings..
Pin :: Pin (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..
Inknee :: Inknee (n.) Same as Knock-knee.
Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table..
Inkneed :: Inkneed (a.) See Knock-kneed.
Knockdown :: Knockdown (a.) Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument..
Knock-knee :: Knock-knee (n.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Knobbing :: Knobbing (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Floorer :: Floorer (n.) Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities..
Ninepins :: Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling..
Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another..
Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door..
Knocking :: Knocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knoc.
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