See knokken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To pound; to beat down."
],
"links": [
[
"pound",
"pound"
],
[
"beat",
"beat"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To strike (with a weapon or one's head)"
],
"links": [
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"weapon",
"weapon#English"
],
[
"head",
"head#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
35
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
24,
29
]
],
"english": "I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door for me, I'll go and dine with them, and them with me.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 3:20, folio 118, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "lo I ſtonde at the doꝛe .· ⁊ knocke if ony man heriþ my voys · ⁊ openeþ þe ȝate to me · I ſhal entre to hym · ⁊ ſoupe with hym · ⁊ he with me",
"translation": "I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door for me, I'll go and dine with them, and them with me.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To knock or rap on (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"knock",
"knock"
],
[
"rap",
"rap"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To beat against the breast."
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"breast",
"breast"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To pulverise; to crush to bits."
],
"links": [
[
"pulverise",
"pulverise"
],
[
"crush",
"crush"
],
[
"bits",
"bits"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To assault; to attack."
],
"links": [
[
"assault",
"assault"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To assault; to attack."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈknɔkən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈknɔ̞ːkən/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"trisyllabic shortening"
],
"word": "knokken"
}
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