GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Knock down  (?), n.
   1. To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, “to knock down an assailant”.
   
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   2. To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock of the auctioneer's hammer; to sell at an auction; as, “the vase was knocked down at two thousand dollars”.
   
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   3. To take apart; to dissassemble; as, “to knock down a rifle for cleaning”.
   
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   4. To reduce or discount the price of; as, “the dresses were knocked down to twenty dollars”.
   
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   5. To earn (an income). “plumbers who knock down over a hundred thousand a year.”
   
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