knock under

English

Etymology

Perhaps from the old practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered.

Verb

knock under

(intransitive, dated) To yield; to submit; to acknowledge oneself conquered.
- Thackeray
  Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for knock under in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

单词	knock under
释义	knock under English Etymology Perhaps from the old practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. Verb knock under (intransitive, dated) To yield; to submit; to acknowledge oneself conquered. Thackeray Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for knock under in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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