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knocking under

knocking under is the present participle and gerund of knock under.

Meaning of knock under

Verb

knock under (third-person singular simple present knocks under, present participle knocking under, simple past and past participle knocked under)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.
    • I pull the second best trigger in this county. I knock under to Natty Bumppo there, sin' he shot the pigeon.1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XIV, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 209
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To die.

Questions about knocking under

What is knocking under the present participle and gerund of?
Knocking under is the present participle and gerund of knock under.

Words near knocking under in the dictionary

  1. knocking the daylights out of
  2. knocking the living daylights out of
  3. knocking the stuffing out of
  4. knocking the wind out of someone's sails
  5. knocking together
  6. knocking under
  7. knocking up
  8. knocking wood
  9. knocking-shop
  10. knockingly
  11. knockings

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