Noun:

खटखटाहट, धक्रका, दस्तक,

Verb:

धक्रका देना, प्रहार करना, मारना, धूमना, खटखटाना, दस्तक देना,

knocks's Usage Examples:

The A'R man fumbles a farewell handshake but knocks the singer's pint glass out of his hand, splashing the singer with beer.

The young gannets tumble off the rock, hopefully learning to fly on the way down in this ultimate school of hard knocks.

Now, after hard knocks and trials, their legacy rests not on music but on the infamy of a tabloid frenzy.

The rugged casing has given many the opinion that the unit can take life's larger knocks, like being dropped!

Their hands bore the hard calluses of heavy manual labor, their backbones carried the scars of years of knocks against rough hewn surfaces.

When the waste contains any large percentage of worm or chrysalis, it is taken to a " cocoon beater," a machine which has a large revolving disk on which the silk is put, and while revolving slowly is beaten by a leather whip or flail, which loosens the silk and knocks out the wormy matter.

From an evidential point of view the apparition is the most valuable class of death-warning, inasmuch as recognition is more difficult in the case of an auditory hallucination, even where it takes the form of spoken words; moreover, auditory hallucinations coinciding with deaths may be mere knocks, ringing of bells, 'c. tactile hallucinations are still more difficult of recognition; and the hallucinations of smell which are sometimes found as death-warnings rarely have anything to associate them specially with the dead person.

in 1500, the pope on the Christmas Eve with which the jubilee begins goes in solemn procession to a particular walled-up door ("Porta aurea") of St Peter's and knocks three times, using at the same time the words of Ps.

They climbed the stairs but there was no sign of life and no answer to knocks.

Loud knocks were heard at the door.

Synonyms:

knap, rap,

Antonyms:

bottom, square, angular,