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单词 to offer or give a knee
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to offer or give a knee
b. to offer or give a knee, to act as second in a pugilistic encounter, it being customary for a second to give a principal the support of his knee between the rounds.
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to offer or give a knee1847
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) v. 37 Everybody was anxious to have the honour of offering the conqueror a knee.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. v. 321 Tom, with..Martin to give him a knee, steps out on to the turf.
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