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Definition of Knocked
Knocked Knock Knock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knocked; 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.
Knock Knock Knock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knocked; 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.
Knock Knock Knock, n.
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.
Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops
from the needles.
Knock Knock Knock (n[o^]k), v. 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. --Shak.
To knock down.
(a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by
blows; as, to knock down an assailant.
(b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or
knock; to knock off.
To knock in the head, or on the head, to stun or kill by
a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat,
as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq.]
-- To knock off.
(a) To force off by a blow or by beating.
(b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the
counter.
(c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock
out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out
the brains.
To knock up.
(a) To arouse by knocking.
(b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do
more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.]
``The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had
knocked up my followers.' --Petherick.
(c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape
into book form, as printed sheets.
Knock Knock Knock, v. i.
To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize
habitually or captiously. [Vulgar Slang, U. S.]
Knock Knock Knock, v. t.
To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to
admiration or applause. [Slang, Eng.]
