knuckle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
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lifestyle
manufacturing
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snooker
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sports
Etymology: From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill. More at knock.
Inflected forms:
form: knuckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knuckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knuckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knuckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knuckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical joint.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
pos: noun
gloss: The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
pos: noun
examples: With wearie knockles on thy brim she kneeled sadly downe
gloss: A cut of meat of various kinds.
pos: noun
examples: Beef knuckle is from the knee joint. Pork knuckle, or ham hock, is from the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the leg.
gloss: The joint of a plant.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In the West Indies there are found, even in sandy deserts and very dry places, large canes, which at every joint or knuckle yield a good supply of fresh water
gloss: A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
pos: noun
gloss: A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
pos: noun
examples: brass knuckles
gloss: The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
pos: noun
gloss: To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
gloss: To strike or punch.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back.
Only then I knuckled him. He had to be taught a hard lesson.
gloss: To bend the fingers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To yield.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
pos: verb
Derived words: knuckleball
knucklebone
knuckleboom
knucklecurve
knuckleheaded
knucklelike
knuckler
knucklesome
knucklewalk
knucklewalker
knuckly
knuckle bow
knuckle-buster
knuckle children
knuckle dragger
knuckle-dragging
knuckle duster
knucklehead
knuckle joint
knuckle sandwich
knuckle-scraper
knuckle-tat
knuckle-walking
bare-knuckle → bare-knuckle boxing
brass knuckles
five-knuckle shuffle
fuck-knuckle
interknuckle
moose knuckle
near the knuckle
pea-knuckle → pea-knuckle war
white-knuckle → white-knuckle ride
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