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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.]

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

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.

Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. Ingle nock, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

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.

o, 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.]

tration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings. [China]kowtow S. W. Williams.

To knock on the head. [Obs.]

layed with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] Holland.

Oil cake; penock. [India]

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang] Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. -- Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bo…

Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. -- Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. -- Pool snipe (Zoöl.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.…

rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.