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Webster 1913 Edition


Knocking

Knock′ing

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Knocking

KNOCK'ING

,
ppr.
nok'ing. Beating; striking.

KNOCK'ING

,
Noun.
nok'ing. A beating; a rap.

Definition 2024


knocking

knocking

English

Verb

knocking

  1. present participle of knock

Noun

knocking (plural knockings)

  1. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
    • 1893, W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight:
      These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.
    • 1901, Carson Jay Lee, Oswald Langdon:
      There was no response to continued knockings.
    • 2006 July 21, Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
      Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings, with a gently swelling sense of the sinister.