knocking

English

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

Verb

knocking

  1. present participle of knock

Noun

knocking (plural knockings)

  1. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
    • 1893, W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight‎:
      These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.
    • 1901, Carson Jay Lee, Oswald Langdon‎:
      There was no response to continued knockings.
    • 2006 July 21, Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings, with a gently swelling sense of the sinister.
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