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knock-
the vb.-stem or noun of action in Comb. knock-bark (Mining), ore that has been crushed; knock-knock n., v., and int. in various senses (see quots.); knock-stone, a stone (or cast-iron plate) on which ore is broken; knock-toe, a galley-punt. Also with adverbs, as knock-under, an act of ‘knocking under’ (see knock v. 17); knock-ˈupable a. (nonce-wd.), likely to be ‘knocked up’ or weak; knockˈupedness (nonce-wd.), the state of being ‘knocked up’ or weak. See also knock-about, knock-down, knock-knee, etc.
1653E. Manlove Lead Mines 266 Fell, Bous, and *Knock⁓barke. 1747[see knock-stone]. 1828Craven Dial., Knock⁓bark, ore after it is reduced by the hand or machine.
1904Daily Chron. 2 July 8/1 The *knock-knocking at the door sending a thrill through the pulse. 1936Variety 19 Aug. 25/5 Manager Russell Bovim, of Loew's Broad, Columbus, cashed in handsomely on the ‘Knock Knock’ craze now sweeping the country. 1941C. Graves Life Line 179 Certain trawlers have the job of sweeping for magnetic mines (known as ‘Maggies’) and the latest acoustic mines (known as ‘knock-knocks’). 1957O. Nash You can't get there from Here 151 Who, rapped Mr. Webster, escapes an escapee? That, knock-knocked Mr. Merriam, is what puzzles me. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. v. 82 A craze for Wellerisms is apt to develop in a school in the same way that there are still sometimes crazes for limericks, Little Audrey jokes, Knock-knocks, and Shaggy-dog stories. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1161/1 Knock! knock! A c.p., dating from the middle of Nov. 1936... Orig. ex U.S. It is used, esp. among busmen, by a person about to tell a dirty story or, esp., to make a pun, gen. in doubtful taste. 1974Radio Times 19–25 Oct. 59 ‘Knock, knock.’ ‘Who's there?’ ‘Richard Milhous.’ ‘Richard Milhous who?’ ‘Ah{ddd}how quickly people forget.’
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. L j, Knockbark [is] all that is carried to the *Knock-Stone and there knocked down with the Bucker. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 749 A very hard stone slab, or cast-iron plate,..called a knock-stone.
1903W. C. Russell Overdue vi. 104 It is the Deal galley-punt too, called in the parts she belongs to ‘*knocktoe’. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 80 Knock-toe, an old name for the Deal lugger-rigged galley punt, in which there was little room for the feet.
1894Blackmore Perlycross 51 They seem to have brought him down to a flat *knock-under.
1857Geo. Eliot Let. 5 Apr. (1954) ii. 314 For some time I have been unusually weak and *knock-upable.
1855D. G. Rossetti Let. 19 Sept. (1965) I. 271, I am very sorry indeed to hear of your *knockupedness but I warned you about that window. |