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Knuckles

noun

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

Knuckle

noun

A joint of a finger when the fist is closed. Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint.

verb

(past & past part. knuckled; pres. part. knuckling)

Press or rub with the knuckles.

Shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground.

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"Knuckles" Quotes from Famous Books

... old Daniels appeared at the door, a heavy Colt in his hand. For a moment he stood dumbfounded, but then, with a cry, jerked up his gun—a quick movement, but a fraction of a second too slow, for the hand of Dan darted out and his knuckles struck the wrist of the old cattleman. The Colt rattled on the floor. He lunged after his weapon, but the voice of Buck stopped ...

— The Untamed • Max Brand

... he fought off panic, realizing that some of those noises he could identify with confidence, while others remained mysteries. He bit down hard on the knuckles of his clenched fist, attempting to bend that discovery into evidence. Why did he know at once that that thin, eerie wailing was the flock call of a leather-winged, feathered tree dweller, and that a coughing grunt from downstream ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... noticed hands and feet, because she declared they were more difficult to disguise than any other portion of one's anatomy. One glance at the woman's ungloved hands made Josie wonder at the well-kept nails and dimpled knuckles. ...

— Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman • Emma Speed Sampson

... his knuckles to his lips, raised out of himself by the accord of voices and the lingering note of melancholy that was in the hour, the note of the ...

— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... box, brings it up to him, puts it irritatingly in front of him; he seizes it, they struggle for it, trying to take it out of each other's hands; she screams, he tries to get it; there is a scuffle round the room; he tries to rub her knuckles; she makes a little feint to bite him; in the struggle the box drops on the floor a little below ...

— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones

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