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Synonyms for knocked together


Grammar : Verb
Spell : nok
Phonetic Transcription : nɒk

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Définition of knocked together

Origin :
  • Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"
  • At the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off. [U.S. Senate record, 1834]
  • As in throw up : verb build quickly
  • As in build : verb construct structure
  • As in upraise : verb erect
  • As in uprear : verb erect
  • As in erect : verb build; establish
  • As in fabricate : verb manufacture
  • As in fashion : verb adjust, design, create
Example sentences :
  • Then I had a look at the magazine what poor Chips had knocked together.
  • Extract from : « The Castaways » by Harry Collingwood
  • Blackstock, therefore, knocked together a handy litter for his benefit.
  • Extract from : « Jim » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • (In their hurry) many pitchers were knocked together and broken, but men brought hundreds of new pots to replace them.
  • Extract from : « Chaitanya's Life And Teachings » by Krishna das Kaviraja
  • I was lying on a bed which was made of rough deal, and had evidently been knocked together hurriedly.
  • Extract from : « The Birthright » by Joseph Hocking
  • Had the whale possessed knees they would assuredly have knocked together.
  • Extract from : « Myths & Legends of Japan » by F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) Davis
  • His coffin was knocked together on the forward deck next morningwith Carbonear a days sail beyond.
  • Extract from : « Dr. Grenfell's Parish » by Norman Duncan
  • My knees were almost giving way under me; they knocked together for fear.
  • Extract from : « The Man-Wolf and Other Tales » by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
  • He stammered some incoherent syllables, and tried to bend his knees, but they knocked together, trembling.
  • Extract from : « The King's Men » by Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T. Wheelwright
  • In one way or another various craft were knocked together, filled, and set afloat in good hope of reaching Fort Washington.
  • Extract from : « Historic Highways of America (Vol. 8) » by Archer Butler Hulbert
  • The gleam of her teeth, as they knocked together, made the strong man recoil.
  • Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens

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