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knocks under

knocks under is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 knocks under

What is knocks under the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Knocks under is the third-person singular simple present indicative of knock under.

Words near knocks under in the dictionary

  1. knocks the daylights out of
  2. knocks the living daylights out of
  3. knocks the stuffing out of
  4. knocks the wind out of someone's sails
  5. knocks together
  6. knocks under
  7. knocks up
  8. knocks wood
  9. knockstone
  10. knockstones
  11. knockt

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