Word Meanings - KNOCKABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Marked by knocking about or roughness. 2. Of noisy and violent character. 3. Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither. 4. That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on

Additional info about word: KNOCKABOUT

1. Marked by knocking about or roughness. 2. Of noisy and violent character. 3. Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither. 4. That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• HITHER
  1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither. 2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. Hither
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• SWANMARK
  A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.