The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knuckling
Knuckle \Knuc"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knuckled;; p. pr. & vb. n. Knuckling.] To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under. To knuckle to.
To submit to in a contest; to yield to. [Colloq.] See To knock under, under Knock, v. i.
To apply one's self vigorously or earnestly to; as, to knuckle to work. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
knuckling
vb. (present participle of knuckle English)
Usage examples of "knuckling".
Thorn came to play stones, too, and to share rumors he picked up in the towns and villages, knuckling his long white mustache over the choicer bits.
She refrained from knuckling the small of her back, much as she wanted to.
And the notion of knuckling under to the dictates of that undersized—"