What is "knock together"

Usage examples of "knock together".

This was because it was holding down a poultice of honey and horse manure and a small mouse-powered electrostatic generator he'd got those clever young fellas in the High Energy Magic research building to knock together for him, clever fellas they were, one day he might even understand half of what they were always gabblin' on about.

Harrison Cooper chose to dream and knock together from pure air and electric thunderclaps what he called his Mobius Machine.

We'll have to stick it till then, but there is no reason why we shouldn't knock together some sort of shelter and roof it with palm leaves.

Any one of the machine shops can knock together a Morse-key in a couple of minutes.

And through it all, the numbing, bruising rush to knock together hasty wooden forms and pour a protective wall around the subterranean shelters they were gouging out of the ground, trying to hold on long enough for Concordiat military help to arrive.

He ordered the ship's carpenter to knock together a bunk and a shelf on which Hal could lay out his books and papers.

Harrison Cooper chose to dreamand knock together from pure air and electric thunderclaps what he called hisMobius Machine.

The note would say: 'Whenever my editor called me up and told me you were planning to review one of my books in the daily Times, my knees used to knock together - you gave me some good ones, Chris old buddy, but you also torpedoed me more than once, as you well know.