The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knockings \Knock"ings\, n. pl. (Mining) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of knocking English)
Usage examples of "knockings".
By modulating the microwave source with pulse generators, they found they could produce such recognizable things as bongo drums, lawnmower engines, electric saws, knockings on doors, and the tapping of a pencil.
As ire dissipated, Imrhien became aware that she had heard no knockings for quite some time.
By now their path had diverged from the straight rail-track of the trams, and the miners' knockings had contracted to the right.
Far below, a heartbroken sobbing would start up like a mill-wheel, or weird, high singing would weave resonating glass rods through the forest, or eldritch knockings and tappings would echo through the lofty vaults, emanating from down among the roots.
Around Annath Gothallamor, rearward of Morragan's knights, unseelie wights moved within a pitchy darkness they had gathered about themselves like veils of black muslin, from which issued howls and laughter, screams and sobbing, sudden frenzied knockings and threatening silences: an orchestration realized from fevered dreams.
Both the noises were knockings—patient knockings, infinitely remote, as if two outsiders, two excluded people, were knocking on the walls of that world.
But even with the demon long gone, strange things still happen on the tor, or so they say, blue lights dancing in the moonlight, half-seen shapes skittering around, and wails, creaks and knockings in the night.