v. Obs. Also 6 knatch. [app. a phonetic variant or deriv. of KNACK v.] trans. To knock (on the head), destroy, crash, suppress.
a. 1564. Becon, Common-pl. Holy Script., in Prayers, etc. (1844), 339. He that killeth a sheep for me knetcheth a dog.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse, 29 b. With a great clubbe [Commodus] knatched them all on the hed, as they had been Giauntes.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 17. Now for vs to feret and knetch these Vermin.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter iii. 3. That treason was knetched before it was fully hatched.
