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(Knok-,) Knocksmith, n. Also: cnock- and -smeth. [Cf. e.m.E. klocke smythe (1556).] = Knok-makar. — 1663 Dundee B. Laws 486.
James Alysoun, knocksmeth [pr. kneck-] 1679 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. II. 36.
[Robert Wallace] knocksmith in Hadington 1689 Dundee B. Laws 494.
Thomas Webster … was entered … for exerceing … the office of cnocksmith, and dressing and mending of watches 1692 Conv. Burghs IV. 571.
To the knocksmith of fie, 91 lib.
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