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Knock
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
(2):
(v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
(3):
(n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
(4):
(v. i.) To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.
(5):
(v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
(6):
(n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
(7):
(v. t.) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
(8):
(v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Knock'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/k/knock.html. 1828.
