Sc. [In sense 1, a. Gael. (also Ir.) cnoc knoll, rounded hill. With 2 cf. Danish dial. knok little hillock (Molbech).]
1. A hill; a hillock, a knoll.
? 17[?]. Jacobite Relics, II. 148 (Jam.). Round the rock, Down by the knock.
1820. Glenfergus, I. 108. The knock, an insulated hill behind the church.
2. A name given on the coast of Lincolnshire, etc., to sand-banks. Cf. Kentish Knock, a sand-bank near the mouth of the Thames; also Knock Sand.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1538/2. To make [at Dover] certeine groins or knocks, which at the havens mouth should cause such a depth, as thereby the whole harborough should lie drie at a low water.
1881. Knock Sand [see KNOCK v. 5].
1898. Westm. Gaz., 1 Dec., 7/2. The surf boat … when near Kentish Knock was taken in tow by a tug … no vessel can be found on the Knock.
