What is "knuckled"

Usage examples of "knuckled".

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.

He dumped a handful of tinstone in a sack and knuckled the small of his back.

Harthouse inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead.

While drawing out Tombstone and getting him to talk about himself, Pamela had argued that carriers were too expensive and too vulnerable, useless high-tech toys in an age when nuclear confrontation with the Soviets was no longer a likely possibility, and when Third World banana republics no longer knuckled under to gunboat diplomacy.

But then I dropped a couple of extracurriculars, knuckled down, and brought that grade right up.

I hadn't the wit to perceive it, until the sticking point was reached, and she knuckled down in a flood of tears.

Momentarily startled, Rafferty knuckled down over the steering wheel and glared out at the road unfolding ahead.

Each person visibly knuckled down and braced for whatever impact it would take to shake these hawks from the empress’.

Nevertheless, the CIGA protests made it doubly difficult to organize a workable system of home defense, even though devoted Imperials everywhere knuckled down and worked 'round the clock with whatever resources they could scrape together.

A weedy fellow in a black coat, he knuckled his waxed mustaches in an amused way, careful not to spoil the points.

He held his arms up: one in a knuckled fist, the other open in a stiffened blade.