An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
It came to me, like a knock on the door / Erasing all that had gone before / Broken wings can be mended / But this love of ours, we've got to defend it
A sharp impact.
He took a knock on the head.
A criticism.
Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
Knock on the door and find out if they’re home.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
A suburb and ward in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A townland in Drumcliff civil parish, County Clare, Ireland.
A town and civil parish of County Mayo, Ireland, location of the Knock Shrine.
From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, ġecnucian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffix...
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Master, knock the door hard.
To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.