[Ads-l] "knock", verb, to have carnal knowledge of some one

[George Thompson]

HDAS shows that this is an old word in England, but not in America.
However, an article in The NEHG Register on a bastardy case in Maine in
1724 quotes the following testimony: "Abraham Remich told me that he Knoct
bathsheba Lidton Sum time in August Last"
NEHGR, vol. 174 (no. 693), Winter, 2020, p. 70, citing *Province and Court
Records of Maine*, vol. 6, pp. 148-53, apparently published in 1975.
NEHG is also known as the New English Historical and Genealogical Society.
For those wondering: Bathsheba seems to have been no better than she should
have been, but the court allowed her to choose which of the guys who had
knocked her, to be the designated father.

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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