"knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED

[Wilson Gray]

Interesting! I wonder how _knock boots_ came about. For that matter, I
wonder how the _knock it out_ of my lost youth came about.

-Wilson

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> "knock" v. = 'copulate with' 1702; interdates OED2 sense 2.d 1604--1785.
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> Province and Court Records of Maine,
> Vol. IV:
> The Court Records of York County, Maine,
> Province of Massachusetts Bay,
> November, 1692 -- January, 1710--11.
> Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1958.
>
> 5 January 1702/03.
>
> p. 288.
> The sd Sarah tiny [sic] ... doth testifie & Saye that ... John Ame
> [sic] came ... & Swore by God that I had promised him he Should nok
> mee ly with mee & withall he took hold of mee & Threw mee Down &
> pulled up my Close Shewed all my Nakedness & Run into the house after Mee ...
>
> p. 289.
> Elizabeth Tyler ... doth Testifie & Seay that She ... Saw John Amee &
> Sarah Tinny ... & both of them run up in the Chamber Shee first & him
> after but he Staid little while there but come down againe ... & Shee
> after him ... but when She [Tinny] Come downe Shee [Tyler] hard
> [heard] the sd Sarah Tiny [sic] Call him Indian dog & bee for that he
> Said Sarah you promised me to let me ly with you & now I will ly ...
> [ellipsis in original] with you & Shee run behind my back & he Puled
> her out and said he would kik and nok you & the sd Sarah Tinny asked
> sd Mee where he would nok her with a hatchet or hamer but he sd he
> would nok her with his Prick ...
>
> [The free-wheeling and free-writing colonial district of Maine.]
>
> Joel
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