Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Knocking

Knock′ing

,

Noun.

A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

The . . . repeated

knockings

of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper.

H. Spencer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Knocking

KNOCK'ING

,

ppr.

nok'ing. Beating; striking.

KNOCK'ING

,

Noun.

nok'ing. A beating; a rap.

Definition 2024

knocking

knocking

English

Verb

knocking

present participle of knock

Noun

knocking ‎(plural knockings)

An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
- 1893, W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight:
  These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.
- 1901, Carson Jay Lee, Oswald Langdon:
  There was no response to continued knockings.
- 2006 July 21, Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
  Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings, with a gently swelling sense of the sinister.