Find the word definition

Wiktionary
knucker

n. A kind of (vern water dragon pedia=1), living in knuckerholes in Sussex, England.

Wikipedia
Knucker

Knucker is a dialect word for a kind of water dragon, living in knuckerholes in Sussex, England. The word comes from the Old English nicor which means "water monster" and is used in the poem Beowulf.

Usage examples of "knucker".

Devoid of external assistance and support, Knucker the Knower’s legs finally gave out.

A firm push from one finger would have been enough to knock Knucker over.

He continued to support Knucker by himself while Simna dealt with the landlord.

That soft little self-important innkeeper couldn’t throw Knucker out in the street, and that with him completely unconscious.

If Knucker was, for whatever unknown reasons of his own, playing out a game behind a mask of feigned ignorance, he was performing like a professional.

Then the big carnivore emitted a series of short, pithy yowls, which, if Knucker had not known better, he might well have mistaken for laughter.

I believe that with Knucker and his knowing it is all one way or all the other.

Their progress was made difficult because they had to keep more or less to the trail as located by Knucker while avoiding not only the falling cones but also the dense mass of trees.

A hesitant Knucker finally emerged from the protection of the scarred tree.

The face that peered hauntingly out of the mirror was that of the Knucker Ehomba and his companions had found besotted and soiled in a squalid close, lying barely conscious in his own filth.

Frowning, he directed the hesitant Knucker to come and hold the mirror.

Simna and Knucker slipped back into the easy camaraderie tendered by the citizens of Netherbrae more comfortably than did Ehomba.

With a last glance down at the giggling, coughing Knucker, the swordsman hurried to catch up to his friend.