• KNOCK

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• v. Hit, strike, pulsare aliquid (fores, ostium). To knock anything with anything, pulsare aliquid aliqua re; (if with violence), percutere aliquid aliqua re: to knock one’s head violently against a stone, capite graviter offenso impingi saxo; against the door, capite illidi or impingi foribus; (if voluntarily), caput illidere or impingere alicui rei: to knock to pieces, perfringere aliquid. [Vid. BEAT, STRIKE].
• To knock at, digito impellere aliquid (to knock at with the finger; e.g., januam); pulsare aliquid (to knock violently against anything; e.g., fores, ostium: the form pultare occurs with januam, Plaut.; ostium, fores, Terentianus). Someone knocks at the door, pulsantur fores. To knock violently against the windows, quatere fenestras (Hor., Od., 1, 25, 1).
• To knock in, (pulsando) effringere, perfringere (as doors, windows). To knock in the teeth, illidere dentes labellis (Lucr., 4, 1073); dentes elidere (to knock them out).
• To knock off (the top of anything), decutere.
• To knock out, excutere (with shaking or violence); elidere (implying injury). To knock out one’s eyes, oculum alicui excutere, elidere: one’s teeth, *elidere alicui dentes (after Lucr., 4, 1073, where illidere dentes labellis; i. e., to strike in the teeth): malas alicui indentare: dentilegum aliquem facere (both comedy). To knock in the bottom of a cask, dolio fundum excutere.

2. s. pulsus (with genitive, either of the thing with which one knocks or against which one knocks: a knock at the door, pulsus ostii; also, pulsatio ostii, as act): percussio (a violent striking, as action: knock on the head, percussio capitis): ictus (blow, thrust, etc., which injures or wounds the object). Vid. BLOW, s. KNOCKER (at a door), perhaps malleus.