knock in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Do you feel inclined to have a knock in for an hour?" said Charles, addressing Tom. "I don't understand much of the game." […] He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood."
- ""Close the oak, Jem," said Horace Eglantine, "and take care no one knocks in before we have knocked down the contents of your master's musical melange.""
- "There's twelve striking. I must knock in. Good night. You'll be round to breakfast at nine?"
- "At first, too, he was on such occasions greatly alarmed at finding the gates of Brazenface closed, obliging him thereby to "knock-in;" and not only did he apologize to the porter for troubling him to open the wicket, but he also volunteered elaborate explanations of the reasons that had kept him out after time[…]"
- "With the tension rising Brecel knocked in a timely 51 to leave himself on the brink of victory, which he confirmed with a stylish 112 break."