Knock

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Knock may refer to:

Places

Republic of Ireland

• Knock, County Clare - village in County Clare
• Knock, County Mayo - village in County Mayo
• Knock Shrine - a major Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in the village of Knock, County Mayo.
• Ireland West Airport Knock - commonly known as Knock Airport

also

• Castleknock - County Dublin
• Knockcroghery - County Roscommon
• Knocklyon - suburb of Dublin
• Knocknagoshel - County Kerry
• Knocktopher - County Kilkenny
• Knocknacarra - County Galway

Scotland

• Knock, Isle of Lewis
• Knockhill
• Knock railway station (Banffshire)

England

• Knock, Cumbria

Germany

• Knock, East Frisia, East Frisia

Northern Ireland

• Knock, Belfast - County Down
• Knock, County Armagh - a townland in County Armagh

Belgium

• Knokke

Other

Knock may also refer to:

• Knock Nevis - a Norwegian supertanker formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking
• Engine knocking - in spark-ignition internal combustion engines occurs when combustion of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder starts off correctly in response to ignition by the spark plug, but one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the envelope of the normal combustion front
• Knock (play) - (1922) by Jules Romains about a doctor
• Knock (short story) - by Fredric Brown, supposedly the shortest short-story ever written
• The Knock - a UK television drama, running from 1994 to 2000
• The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2) - a song by UNKLE from the 1998 album Psyence Fiction
• The Knock - another term for Hitting the wall
• The Knock - a slang term for HM Revenue and Customs
• Knocking on a door

See also

• Getting the wind knocked out of you
• Knock Castle (disambiguation)
• Knock Knock (disambiguation)
• Knockabout (disambiguation)
• Knocking (disambiguation)
• Knockout, a winning criterion in some combat sports
• Knocks (disambiguation)
• Nauck (disambiguation)
• Nock (disambiguation)
• NOC (disambiguation)