Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Jointed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Jointed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Involving a certain type of
knuckles . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
knuckle .
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Examples
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"It just kind of knuckled on me and hit the post," Knuble said of his missed first chance.
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All the amusement and mischief vanished from Belladonna’s face and her somber expression knuckled a fist of apprehension into Kallie’s guts.
Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010
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Once we made it out on the street (s), the traffic – and my white-knuckled grip on the edge of my seat – increased ten-fold.
Kathmandu – FIrst Impressions » Dave Brosha Photography 2009
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Like the mate's, they were thick-boned, broken-knuckled, and malformed.
CHAPTER II 2010
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White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers.
First Matt Potter 2010
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They were large-knuckled, sinewy and malformed by labour, rimed with callouses, the nails blunt and broken, and with here and there cuts and bruises, healed and healing, such as are common to the hands of hard-working men.
SAMUEL 2010
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He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans.
Chapter IX 2010
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His arms were long, like prehistoric man's, and his hands were like soup-plates, twisted and gnarled, and big-knuckled from toil.
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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He went to crawl through the post fence, rifle clenched even tighter in his knuckled fist.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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His arms were long, like prehistoric man's, and his hands were like soup-plates, twisted and gnarled, and big-knuckled from toil.
Too Much Gold 2010
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