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knuckle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
| Type of | articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis, synovial joint |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | press |
knuckle::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | shoot |
Examples of knuckle
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Behind him is a thrilling, anyone-can-win season and a white-knuckle postseason.
From the businessweek.com
A bare-knuckle fight at a Traveller site in Luton, from the documentary Knuckle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Torres finally showed he is human in a white-knuckle ninth inning Tuesday night.
From the jsonline.com
Jeter started at shortstop, one day after bruising a knuckle on his left pinkie.
From the timesunion.com
It's not an underground band of bare knuckle brawlers as the name might suggest.
From the dailyherald.com
He is famous for his fast, nervous delivery and close-to-the-knuckle witticisms.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Stay clear of cut-up bone pieces such as neck bones, knuckle bones and ox tails.
From the stltoday.com
Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian Calendar.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He bare-knuckle boxed for years, breaking people's bones in and out of the ring.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Press or rub with the knuckles
- A joint of a finger when the fist is closed
- Shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground
- The knuckles are the joints of the fingers which are brought into prominence when the hand is clenched and a fist is made. The word is cognate to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch "Knokkel" (knuckle) or German "Knu00F6chel" (ankle), i.e., Knu00F6chlein, the diminutive of the German word for bone (Knochen)...
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers; A mechanical joint; A cut of meat; The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table; To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles
- (Knuckles) [Slang], lumpy protrusions on the edges, and sometimes the underside, of a thunderstorm anvil. They usually appear on the upwind side of a back-sheared anvil, and indicate rapid expansion of the anvil due to the presence of a very strong updraft. They are not mammatus clouds. ...
- (KNUCKLES) Indecision; lack of focus; wasting time rather than 'knuckling down' / Yielding or submitting to something, perhaps without fully thinking it through; being told off; acting stupidly / If white: Extreme anxiety or fear
- (Knuckles) Raised loops of a woven textile structure.
- (Knuckles) mountain range lies east of Kandy and Matale, separated from the central hills by the Dumbara valley. It extends 19 km from Laggala in the north to Urugala in the south. Its popular name Dumbara hills, is derived by it being perpetually covered in mist. ...
