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Definition of Knocking
1. Noun. The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing). "The knocking grew louder"
Definition of Knocking
1. n. A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
Definition of Knocking
1. Verb. (present participle of knock) ¹
2. Noun. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knocking
1. knock [v] - See also: knock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knocking
Literary usage of Knocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"For it1! no use knocking at de door any more, And it 's no use knocking at dc door.
Who*s dat knocking at de door? Who's dat knocking at de door? ..."
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Samuel Thurber (1896)
"Hark ! more knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, 70 And show
us to be ... Here 's a knocking indeed ! If a man were porter of hell-gate, ..."
3. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"knocking, EVER knocking. “Behold, I stmd at the door, and knock. ... Wherefore with
that knocking dreary Scare the sleep from one so weary? Say Him, no. ..."
4. The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1899)
"CHAPTER XII CUSTOMS CONCERNED WITH knocking OUT OF TEETH ; NOSE-BORING ...
knocking OUT OF TEETH THIS is a rite to which individuals of both sexes must ..."
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