knuckle /nukˈl/

1. Any of the bones that protrude when a finger joint is bent
2. A joint of veal or pork from the knee downwards (cookery)

1. To yield (usu with down or under)
2. (in marbles) to touch the ground with the knuckles (usu with down)
3. To bend the knee inward (obsolete golf)

1. To touch or press with the knuckle or knuckles
2. To shoot (a marble) from the thumb knuckle

knuckˈly adjective

knuckˈleball noun (baseball)

A type of pitch with an unpredictable trajectory, caused by gripping the ball with the fingertips

knuckˈleballer noun (baseball)

A pitcher who throws knuckleballs

knuckˈle-bone noun

1. Any bone with a rounded end
2. (in pl) the game of dibs

knuckˈle-bow noun

The curved part of a sword-guard that covers the fingers

knuckˈleduster noun

A metal covering for the knuckles, worn on the hand as a weapon in fist-fighting

knuckˈle-head noun (informal)

An idiot

knuckˈle-headed adjective

knuckle-headˈedness noun

knuckle joint noun

1. Any of the finger joints
2. A hinged joint in which two pieces of machinery are joined by a pin through eyes at their ends, one piece being forked and enclosing the other (mechanics)

knuckle sandwich noun (informal)

A blow with the fist

knuckle down (to)

1. To set oneself to hard work (on)
2. See also vi above

knuckle under

To yield to authority, pressure, etc

near the knuckle

On the verge of the indecent

rap someone's knuckles

To reprimand someone

• lookalike
• lookalikes
• look alive
• look and say
• look-and-say
• look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
• look askance
• look awry
• look daggers
• look down on
• look down one's nose at
• looked
• looker
• looker-on
• lookers
• lookers-on
• look for
• look for a needle in a bottle of hay
• look for a needle in a haystack
• look for trouble
• look forward to
• look here
• look in
• look-in
• -looking