knock't

Updated: May 10, 2025

In the meantime off came about twelve Boats full with the Medway's men to lay my Longboat aboard, who surrounded us with Swords, Clubbs, Staves & divers Instruments, & nothing would do but all our Brains must be Knock't out.

J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson - The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore