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Brass knuckles   /bræs nˈəkəlz/   Listen
Brass knuckles

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






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"Brass knuckles" Quotes from Famous Books



... about time to pull a little first aid stuff. I turned him over on his back and took off his coat, grabbin' it by the bottom and holdin' it up. They was a sudden crash and—Sweet Cookie! A lot of things fell on the ground, among 'em bein' one set of brass knuckles, one blackjack, two more guns, a thing that looked like a bayonet, five boxes of cartridges, a small bottle of nitro-glycerine and three sticks of dynamite! The last two fell in the folds of the coat, or we'd all have gone away from there. Tony's master looks at ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer

... soon took his leave. Hamilton turned to the negro, who, upon the captain's departure, had taken the brass knuckles from his sock and was examining ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... people of impressionism finding it possible to represent more light than even nature shows in very many of her aspects, delight in exhibiting the disparity existing between nature and, forsooth, impressionism. Thus we see attempts to "knock out" with these scientific brass knuckles all those who refuse to fight with them. The rumpus grows out of the different attitudes in which ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... went to the Tombs and was lodged in a cell next door to Soko the Monk, who had nearly beaten a Chinaman to death with a pair of brass knuckles, from whom he learned much that was ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... kept their automatics in their hands, ready for action, Jackson searched each man in businesslike fashion. The weapons thus taken away—regulation automatics, as well as a miscellaneous assortment of brass knuckles and a few wicked daggers, all marking the men as city toughs—were placed in a heap. Before the work had been completed, Lieutenant Summers, anxious to depart, signed to the boys to ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge



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