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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knock \Knock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knocked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Knocking}.] [OE. knoken, AS cnocian cnucian prob. of
imitative origin; cf Sw knacka.Cf. {Knack}.]
1. To drive or be driven against something to strike against
something to clash; as one heavy body knocks against
another. --Bacon.
2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
--Dryden.
Seek, and ye shall find knock, and it shall be
opened unto you --Matt. vii.
7.
{To knock 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.
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