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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Knock \Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knocked} (n[o^]kt); 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. [1913 Webster] For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. --Matt. vii. 7. [1913 Webster] 3. To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously. [Slang, U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {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. {To knock off}, to cease, as from work; to desist. {To knock under}, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Knock \Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. t. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] When heroes knock their knotty heads together. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] 2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. [1913 Webster] Master, knock the door hard. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause. [Slang, Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage. "Don't knock it if you haven't tried it." [PJC] {To knock in the head}, or {To knock on the head}, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq.] -- {To knock off}. (a) To force off by a blow or by beating. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter. (c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- {To knock out}, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains. {To knock up}. (a) To arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers." --Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets. (d) To make pregnant. Often used in passive, "she got knocked up". [vulgar] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Knock \Knock\, n. 1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar. [1913 Webster] 2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] A loud cry or some great knock. --Holland. [1913 Webster] {Knock off}, See {knock off} in the vocabulary. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: backfire \backfire\, back fire \back fire\ 1. A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. (a) A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also called a {knock} or {ping}. (b) an explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Backfire From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: knock n 1: the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder" [syn: {knock}, {knocking}] 2: negative criticism [syn: {knock}, {roast}] 3: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn: {knock}, {bash}, {bang}, {smash}, {belt}] 4: a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks" 5: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whack}, {whang}] v 1: deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room" [syn: {knock}, {strike hard}] 2: rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door" 3: knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" [syn: {bump}, {knock}] 4: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}, {pink}] 5: sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded" [syn: {pink}, {ping}, {knock}] 6: find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" [syn: {knock}, {criticize}, {criticise}, {pick apart}] [ant: {praise}]