knuckle
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Is knuckle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) A mechanical joint.broadly
2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
3. (obsolete) The joint of a plant.Examples: "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"obsolete
4. (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.
5. (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (sense 1).Examples: "He knuckled the sleep from his eyes."transitive
2. (transitive, slang) To strike or punch.Examples: "I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back."; "Only then I knuckled him. He had to be taught a hard lesson."slangtransitive
3. (intransitive) To bend the fingers.intransitive
4. (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.intransitive
5. (intransitive, figurative) To yield.Synonyms: knuckle underfigurativelyintransitive
6. (snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
Definition source: Wiktionary