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A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

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

ed 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.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

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. -- To…

That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.

Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.

Marked by knocking about or roughness.

stration 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.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out. T. Hughes.

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.]

Humorously, a Yankee. We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.