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To knock, as at a door. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

ntertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.…

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

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. Floored or crushed by him. Coleridge.

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. [Colloq.]

ter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.

A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.

Same as Knock-knee.

See Knock-kneed.

To throw, dash, or knock. [Obs.] How the knave jowls it to the ground. Shak.

To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. [Now disused except locally or colloquially.] Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps. Shak.

See Knock-kneed.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

to, or under. To knuckle to. (a) To submit to in a contest; to yield to. [Colloq.] See To knock under, under Knock, v. i. (b) To apply one's self vigorously or earnestly to; as, to knuckle to work. [Colloq.]