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knuckle
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Word definitions for knuckle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knuckle \Knuc"kle\, v. t. To beat with the knuckles; to pummel. [R.] --Horace Smith.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A knuckle is a joint on the hand. Knuckle or knuckles may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brass knuckles cracked...knuckles ▪ Dennis rubbed his hands together and cracked his knuckles . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE brass ▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., knokel "finger joint; any joint of the body, especially a knobby one; morbid lump or swelling;" common Germanic (cognates: Middle Low German knökel , Middle Dutch cnockel , German knöchel ), literally "little bone," a diminutive of Proto-Germanic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers. 2 (context by extension English) A mechanical joint. 3 A cut of meat. 4 (context sports billiards snooker pool English) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports ...
Usage examples of knuckle.
Twain brought a dental unit with her and, in an astoundingly short time, initiated the growth of teeth to replace the ones Alacrity had knuckled loose.
I could not persuade him that by ambassadorship I did not mean knuckling under, turning the cheek, and so forth.
He tried to slug the apish Monk in the pit of the stomach, and the sound was much as if his knuckles had rapped a hard wall.
But even so she had to notice how the pilgrims reacted to the sight of Miss Azimuth, how they cleared the way for her, how they stepped aside out of the trail and put their knuckles to their foreheads.
Knuckles dinged and bleeding, his clothes white, nose filled with plaster dust, he bashed a hole big enough, dropped the hammer and wriggled through, tearing his cape in the process.
Still bedfast, she blanched even whiter than the knuckles of her clenched fists, then turned red as her hair, her blue eyes snapping as if about to explode from her face.
Reluctantly Mindy moved nearer, and Alaina made a slow tour around her, lifting a braid to peer at a well-crusted ear, scanning a dirt-caked neck, and turning small, thin hands to stare with disapproval at the soiled palms and begrimed knuckles.
Captain Breakstone laced his fingers together and cracked his knuckles.
She rapped the simian Cabalist with her knuckles and gestured to the door.
As she spoke, Cade could feel the silken skin of her face brush against his knuckles.
Char was caught under his nails, and dried blood crusted in his knuckles.
Darkly, Cavin rubbed his knuckles across his chin and thought about what Jana had told him.
With a jutting knuckle, Willie rapped sharply on the dorsum of the gun hand, and caught the gun as it fell from momentarily powerless fingers.
Finding the door ajar, he rapped on it with his knuckles and pushed through to discover Ebby sitting with his feet propped up on the sill.
Classic evasion tactics called for him to go deep, forcing the torpedo to follow him down, leaving hard knuckles in the water as he went and ejecting decoys and noisemakers.