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US
/ˈnɑk/
]
[ UK /nˈɒk/ ]
[ UK /nˈɒk/ ]
VERB
-
make small marks into the surface of
score the clay before firing it
How To Use nock In A Sentence
- But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
- He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route. The Sun
- Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
- The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
- Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
- Even if the knock is not severe enough to cause the skull to fracture, the brain bangs against the skull and can be damaged.
- knocked silly by the impact
- She said if the Watson Bill was passed she stood to lose her job and tied house at a livery yard at Craigie, near Kilmarnock.
- Ms Waterman says asbestos entered their flat through a hole which builders knocked in their wall.
- My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.