Definitionen
1.NounAny of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
2.NounA mechanical joint.
3.NounThe curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
4.NounThe kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
5.NounA cut of meat of various kinds."Beef knuckle is from the knee joint. Pork knuckle, or ham hock, is from the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the leg."
6.NounThe joint of a plant.
7.NounA 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.
8.NounA 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."brass knuckles"
9.NounThe rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
10.VerbTo apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1)."He knuckled the sleep from his eyes."
11.VerbTo strike or punch.
12.VerbTo bend the fingers.
13.VerbTo touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
14.VerbTo yield.
15.VerbTo land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.