What is "knuckly"

Usage examples of "knuckly".

He had a narrow, knuckly, intelligent face beneath a feathered cap, and he wore a stiff crewelworked doublet that, with its huge shoulders and waistless line, made him look a good deal like a jack of diamonds.

Moura was glad that Holly was not wearing one of her embarrassing apronsthe apron and nothing else that showed her big pale bottom and her knuckly spine and made her seem so silly and defiant.

That writhing weapon-man had managed to strike the bear in the nose with no more than his knuckly fist, yet with an angry and pained roar the beast hurled him aside.

Large, knuckly fists that grabbed a hold of him and lifted him onto his feet.

Duke lane a ravenous terrier choked up a sick knuckly cud on the cobblestones and lapped it with new zest.

Mr and Mrs Riddle, she looking worried, he looking determined, and Miss Robinson, who just stared at the ground with her red knuckly hands on her knees.

He nodded his head, eyes tightly closed and his huge fists clenched together in one hard knuckly ball.

As I walked back and forth, stowing the necessaries I had brought along, I kept seeing unexpected reflections of myself out of the corner of my eye, a brown slab of meat piled higher than is customary, the stride a loose-jointed shamble -knuckly scarified McGee-san, hoping that all dragons which need slaying will be the size of cocker spaniels, with their teeth and claws worn down from chawing bolder knights, their fiery halitosis fresh out of flints and fluid.

He had a narrow, knuckly, intelligent face beneath a feathered cap, and he wore a stiff crewelworked doublet that, with its huge shoulders and waistless line, made him look a good deal like a jack of diamonds.