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knuckle
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
knuckle (plural knuckles)
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- (by extension) A mechanical joint.
- A cut of meat.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- 1567, Ovid, Arthur Golding (translator), Metamorphoses
- With wearie knockles on thy brim she kneeled sadly downe
- 1567, Ovid, Arthur Golding (translator), Metamorphoses
- (obsolete) The joint of a plant.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, The History of Dense and Rare
- 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
- 1623, Francis Bacon, The History of Dense and Rare
- (shipbuilding) 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.
- 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.
- (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
knuckle (third-person singular simple present knuckles, present participle knuckling, simple past and past participle knuckled)
- (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
- He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
- (intransitive) To bend the fingers.
- (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yield.
- Synonym: knuckle under
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knuckler
English
Etymology
knuckle +? -er
Pronunciation
Noun
knuckler (plural knucklers)
- (baseball slang) A knuckleball.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 2,
- Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 2,
See also
- curveball
- slider
- fastball
- cut fastball
- two-seam fastball
- split-finger fastball
- sinker
- screwball
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