Crossword clues for knucklebone
knucklebone
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump. 2 Such a bone once used in children's games of chance 3 (context slang English) A die
Wikipedia
Knucklebone (disambiguation) may refer to:
- The knuckle, or metatarsus bone
- Knucklebones, a game
- Knucklebone (album), a 2008 album by the musician Baracuda.
Usage examples of "knucklebone".
It was warm, so Knucklebones wore only leathers and knucklebone pendant and knife, with a rucksack slung over one shoulder.
Sunbright hitched the straps on his shoulder, squinted at the sun and their backtrail, tasted the wind for rain, all while Knucklebone stewed for an answer.
Her only jewelry was the knucklebone cradled between her small breasts.
Digging in a belt pouch, he produced the polished knucklebone drilled as a pendant.
Even his knucklebone pendant was ripped away and his worn moosehide boots were shucked off.
Packed in his carpetbag were two gray rebel caps, one with a bullet hole and the other satisfyingly stained with blood, a zinc plug from an unexploded shell, a revolver with a barrel shattered by a cannonball, the knucklebone of a dead rebel, and a rusting belt buckle with the initials CSA stamped clearly on its face.
Sunbright Steelshanks, barbarian, grabbed his much-smaller companion Knucklebones, part-elven thief, by one arm, and hurled her a dozen feet to plow into powdery snow.
Though hard to see against snow and winter-white sky, Sunbright was wrapped like a mummy in white folds so tight that Knucklebones could see knobs marking his belt buckle, back scabbard, and the iron rings of his moosehide boots.
He would have blacked out already had not Knucklebones let in fresh air with her knife.
Yet Knucklebones was raddled with scars from years of fighting, and could ignore pain and distress to keep herself alive in a fight.
Thinking furiously, Knucklebones tried to time the erratic flailing of the lurker, but found no pattern.
The creature reacted to the unnatural touch with new energy, humping high and slamming the earth, then rolling to toss Knucklebones off.
The lurker had enough intelligence to track Knucklebones as a threat, so it curled itself almost double and sprang to arch away.
Exhausted by her mad dashes, Knucklebones dropped, unable to close for fear of being sheared herself.
And of his adventures to hell and to the future, where he met Knucklebones, then returned.