knock-toes

Updated: August 10, 2026

And every day in winter they hover off Deal in their splendid galley punts, rightly called 'knock-toes, for the poor fellows' hands and feet are often semi-frozen, to take a pilot out of some outward-bound steamer going at the rate of ten or fifteen knots an hour.

Thomas Stanley Treanor - Heroes of the Goodwin Sands