Usually means: Surrender or submit under pressure.
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  1. knock under: Merriam-Webster
  2. knock under: Wiktionary
  3. Knock Under: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. knock under: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (knock under)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, dated) To acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, dated, slang) To die.

Similar:
succumb, break down, give in, knuckle down, submit, undercome, give up, surrender, bring to one's knees, knuckle, more...

Phrases:
to knock under, more...

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Similar:
succumb, break down, give in, knuckle down, submit, undercome, give up, surrender, bring to one's knees, knuckle, more...

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to knock under, more...



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