Definition of Knock against

1. Verb. Collide violently with an obstacle. "I ran into the telephone pole"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Knock Against

knock-knock
knock-knock joke
knock-knock jokes
knock-off
knock-on
knock-on effect
knock-on effects
knock-ons
knock-out
knock-out drops
knock-up
knock Anthony
knock about
knock abouts
knock against (current term)
knock around
knock back
knock box
knock boxes
knock cold
knock down
knock for a loop
knock into a cocked hat
knock it off
knock knee
knock knock
knock knock joke
knock knock jokes

Literary usage of Knock against

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"The old blind man, left to the ordeal of the desert—the daughter in agony hanging upon the murderer for consolation—knock against the heart ..."

2. A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words by William Toone (1832)
"Still bearing them in hand, Letting the cherry knock against their lips, And draw it by their mouths. ..."

3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... ndi-nka m/i-ka-kiila, if you walk by the way and it is your little toe you knock against a root, you say, I shall be satisfied where I am going. ..."

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