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Webster 1913 Edition

Knock

Knock

(nŏk)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Knocked
(nŏkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Knocking
.]
[OE.
knoken
, AS.
cnocian
,
cnucian
; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw.
knacka
. Cf.
Knack
.]
1.
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash;
as, one heavy body
knocks
against another
.
Bacon.
2.
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as, to
knock
with a club; to
knock
on the door.
For harbor at a thousand doors they
knocked
.
Dryden.
Seek, and ye shall find;
knock
, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matt. vii. 7.
To knock about
,
to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter.
[Colloq.]
“Knocking about town.”
W. Irving.
–
To knock up
,
to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out.
“The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service.”
De Quincey.
–
To knock off
,
to cease, as from work; to desist.
–
To knock under
,
to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one’s self conquered; – an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered.
“Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate.”
Thackeray.

Knock

(nŏk)
,
Verb.
T.
1.
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.
When heroes
knock
their knotty heads together.
Rowe.
2.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
Master,
knock
the door hard.
Shakespeare

Knock

,
Noun.
1.
A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
2.
A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
“ A knock at the door.”
Longfellow.
A loud cry or some great
knock
.
Holland.

Webster 1828 Edition

Knock

KNOCK

,
Verb.
I.
nok.
1.
To strike or beat with something thick or heavy; as, to knock with a club or with the fist; to knock at the door. We never use this word to express beating with a small stick or whip.
2.
To drive or be driven against; to strike against; to clash; as when one heavy body knocks against another.
To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge to be conquered; an expression borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table, when conquered.

KNOCK

,
Verb.
T.
nok.
To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.
1.
To strike a door for admittance; to rap.
To knock down, to strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an ox.
To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.
To knock up, to arouse by knocking. In popular use, to beat out; to fatigue till unable to do more.
To knock off, to force off by beating. At auctions, to assign to a bidder by a blow on the counter.
To knock on the head, to kill by a blow or by blows.

KNOCK

,
Noun.
nok.
A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.
1.
A stroke on a door, intended as a request for admittance; a rap.

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