TO KNOCK UNDER

Definition: TO KNOCK UNDER

TO KNOCK UNDER

1. To yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. ``Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate.'' --Thackeray.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Translation: TO KNOCK UNDER

Language		Translations for "TO KNOCK UNDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		megadja magát (ask for quarter, capitulate, give up, lay down arms, succumb, to capitulate, to cave in, to cry craven, to knuckle down, to knuckle under, to lower one's flag, to show the white feather, to strike one's flag, to succumb, to surrender, to throw in one's hand, to throw in the towel, to yield, to yield oneself, yield), beadja a derekát (knuckle under, to cave in, to knuckle down, to knuckle under, to lower one's flag, to strike one's flag). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay ockknay erunday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO KNOCK UNDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-k-n-n-o-o-r-t-u"
	-3 letters: contoured, outrocked, undertook.
	-4 letters: condoner, connoted, cornuted, creodont, kenotron, knockout, nocturne, trounced, uncooked, uncorked, unrooted.
	-5 letters: condone, connote, contend, contour, cornute, cornuto, coronet, counted, counter, courted, crooked, crooned, crouton, crunode, donnert, dorneck, dornock, drunken, duotone, eductor, knocked, knocker, knouted, neutron, nocturn, orotund, outdoer, outdone, outrock, outrode, recount, trocked, trounce, trucked, trunked, unnoted.
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