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Knuckles   /nˈəkəlz/   Listen
Knuckles

noun
1.
A small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand.  Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks.


Knuckle

noun
1.
A joint of a finger when the fist is closed.  Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint.
verb
(past & past part. knuckled; pres. part. knuckling)
1.
Press or rub with the knuckles.
2.
Shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground.



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"Knuckles" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other hand, stood upright and hit straight, with the result that he hurt his knuckles very much on his opponent's skull, without seeming to disturb the latter to any great extent. In the process he received one of the windmill swings on the left ear. The crowd, strong pro-Billites, ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... thrust his knuckles into his eyes and rubbed them. Isbister talked for awhile while this rubbing continued, and then he had a fresh idea. "Come down to my room," he said, "and try a pipe. I can show you some sketches of this Blackapit. ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells
... climb down. I did so, very slowly and stiffly, making the sad mistake of jumping down from the height of the step. How that did injure my feelings! The only catastrophe I can remember comparable to it was when a teacher rapped my knuckles with a ruler after I had been making snowballs bare handed. My benumbed faculties next swung around to the proposition of proceeding up an interminable gravel walk—(it is twenty-five feet long!) to a forbidding flight of stairs—(porch ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... it any longer, slipped out of his chair, and crept under the table to comfort Joel. But it wasn't till Polly said, "Come, Joey," that he would show his face. Then he twisted his knuckles into his eyes, and hung ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... knife glitter where she gripped it, half concealed by a fold of her petticoat. Here one of the men muttered some unintelligible word and pointed scornfully at me, whereupon the old woman rapped him smartly over the knuckles and fixed her uncomfortably shrewd gaze on my person, scanning me over very keenly, more especially ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol


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