Knock-knee

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• Knee

  ·vt To supplicate by kneeling. II. Knee ·noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. III...

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• Knock

  ·noun A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. II. Knock ·vt To strike for admittance; to rap ...

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• Knock

  "Though Orientals are very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room,...

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• knock

  To knock a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. To knock off; to conclude: phrase borrowed from t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• knee

  Naturally grown timber, or bars of iron, bent to a right angle, or to fit the surfaces, and to secur...

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• Knee jerk

  ·add. ·- A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, wh...

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• Knee-crooking

  ·adj Obsequious; fawning; cringing. ...

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• Knee-deep

  ·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-hi...

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• Knee-high

  ·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. ...

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• Knock-kneed

  ·adj Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. ...

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• Knock-off

  ·add. ·adj That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off. II. Knock-off ·add. ·noun Act or plac...

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• Knock-out

  ·add. ·noun Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out. II. Knock-out ·add. ·adj That knock...

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• Thick-knee

  ·noun A stone curlew. ·see under <<Stone>>. ...

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• to knock anthony

  Said of an in-kneed person, or one whose knees knock together; to cuff Jonas. See *jonas. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• knock-down

  v. generally of a cheque. To spendriotously, usually in drink. 1869. Marcus Clarke, `Peripatetic P...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• red-knee

  n. sometimes called the Red-kneedDottrel, Charadrius ruftveniris, formerly Erythrogonys cinctus, Go...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to knock down

  A word used at auctions. 'This article is knocked down to you, sir;' meaning, that you are the purch...

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• to knock round

  To go about. I'm going to New York and Boston, and all about thar, and spend the summer until picki...

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• to knock under

  A common expression to denote that one yields or submits.--Johnson. For ten times ten, and that's a...

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• to knock up

  To wear out with fatigue.--Halliwell. It is the constant labour, unvaried by the least relaxation, ...

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• dagger-knee

  A substitute for the hanging-knee, applied to the under side of the lodging-knee; it is placed out o...

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• gammon-knee

  A knee-timber fayed and bolted to the stem, a little below the bowsprit. ...

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• heel-knee

  The compass-piece which connects the keel with the stern-post. ...

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• knee-timber

  That sort of crooked timber which forms at its back or elbow an angle of from 24° to 45°; but the mo...

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• stem-knee

  In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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• stern-knee

  Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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• Knock-out drops

  ·add. ·- Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, ·etc. ...

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• knock me down

  Strong ale or beer, stingo. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hanging standard-knee

  A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...

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• to knock a man over

  to knock him down. North. ...

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• knee of the head

  A large flat piece of timber, fixed edgeways, and fayed upon the fore-part of a ship's stem, support...

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• knock off work and carry deals

  A term used to deride the idea of any work, however light, being relaxation; just as giving up takin...

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