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The small pig of a litter. [Local, U. S.]

The common wren. [Prov. Eng.]

A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blaows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. Judges. xix. 22.

A beef; a beef creature. They would knock down the first beeve they met with. W. Irving.

or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.

d to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

ht or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]

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.

tertainment 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.