Knuckle
noun
The joint in the middle part of your fingers, where it bends.
She rapped on the door with her knuckles
Often appears as...
- knuckle of finger
- bent knuckles
noun
Hard, thick part of meat especially on a pig or cow’s leg.
I prepared a stew with beef knuckle
Often appears as...
- beef knuckle
- knuckle of pork
Usage tips
Culinary
verb
To press or rub something with your knuckles.
He knuckled the sleep out of his eyes
Often appears as...
- knuckle your eyes
- knuckle your forehead
verb
To apply oneself earnestly to a task.
It's time to knuckle down and study
Often appears as...
- knuckle down to work
- knuckle down to studying
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A part of a mechanical device that provides a pivot point for the motion of other parts.
The knuckle in the steering linkage needs to be replaced
Often appears as...
- knuckle joint
- steering knuckle
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The joint in the middle part of your fingers, where it bends.
She rapped on the door with her knuckles
Often appears as...
- knuckle of finger
- bent knuckles
noun
Hard, thick part of meat especially on a pig or cow’s leg.
I prepared a stew with beef knuckle
Often appears as...
- beef knuckle
- knuckle of pork
Usage tips
Culinary
verb
To press or rub something with your knuckles.
He knuckled the sleep out of his eyes
Often appears as...
- knuckle your eyes
- knuckle your forehead
verb
To apply oneself earnestly to a task.
It's time to knuckle down and study
Often appears as...
- knuckle down to work
- knuckle down to studying
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A part of a mechanical device that provides a pivot point for the motion of other parts.
The knuckle in the steering linkage needs to be replaced
Often appears as...
- knuckle joint
- steering knuckle
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Anatomy Term
Used to describe where fingers bend, often mentioned in anatomy or when instructing hand movements.
When playing piano, relax your knuckles.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Gesture
Associated with knocking on doors or surfaces to draw attention, conveying a physical action.
He knocked with his knuckles to avoid using the doorbell.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Verbal Cues
Knuckles can express non-verbal cues such as anger or frustration when showed clenched.
Her clenched knuckles revealed she was holding back her frustration.
Pro Tip 1/3Anatomy Term
Used to describe where fingers bend, often mentioned in anatomy or when instructing hand movements.
When playing piano, relax your knuckles.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Gesture
Associated with knocking on doors or surfaces to draw attention, conveying a physical action.
He knocked with his knuckles to avoid using the doorbell.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Verbal Cues
Knuckles can express non-verbal cues such as anger or frustration when showed clenched.
Her clenched knuckles revealed she was holding back her frustration.
Pro Tip 1/3Anatomy Term
Used to describe where fingers bend, often mentioned in anatomy or when instructing hand movements.
When playing piano, relax your knuckles.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Gesture
Associated with knocking on doors or surfaces to draw attention, conveying a physical action.
He knocked with his knuckles to avoid using the doorbell.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Verbal Cues
Knuckles can express non-verbal cues such as anger or frustration when showed clenched.
Her clenched knuckles revealed she was holding back her frustration.
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Gaming can make a better...
Now, I also agree that that is rational, for now. But it is not, by any means, an optimal situation. We have to start making the real world work more like a game. I take my inspiration from something that happened 2,500 years ago. These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles.
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What metamorphosis can...
knuckles it's actually when you pull the joints you generate negative pressure in the joint itself and thus the dissolve gas is actually nucleate and that's the very similar phenomena that we actually observe in metamorphosis metamorphosis is a very difficult time because water
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Vik Muniz: Art with...
I rented a tuxedo for the first time in my life, picked the thing -- didn't have any friends. On my way out, I had to break a fight apart. Somebody was hitting somebody else with brass knuckles. They were in tuxedos, and fighting. It was very ugly.
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Why do your knuckles...
It also contains phagocytic cells that help clean up any bone or cartilage debris that ends up in the joint. But the reason it's important for knuckle cracking is that, like other fluids in your body, it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules.
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Jakub's First Sturgeon PIPE...
foot two okay tell you the sample sure well you want to be just below the knuckles so we'll make our first cut right there so it doesn't harm the fish at all nope I'm very sorry for the fish but I really hope that it will help for
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Andrew Q and A PIPE Beyond...
let's put it those are those are the main secrets I'll start with this one it's like a deep muscle stimulator it's called but it's basically a massager like a hardcore self massager mine's named air knuckle my nick name is fair
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Life Beyond the Sun by...
something hardest facts no gas to truck with Ugly Duckling shut-in tight just knuckle tumbling all alone pure rock and ice then slowly like a pocket mine you gathered lint for company hydrogen
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Stolen Mummy's Left Hand...
you see the most detailed fingernails and wrinkles on the knuckles I'm pretty sure as soon as they opened the box they said um this is not a prop this is a real mummified hand
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Something to Prove PIPE Are...
and knuckle down and accomplish something that I really wish I would have accomplished earlier in my life okay so get out of here and go and do this
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Burnin' Serious Camaro...
it's 12 or 14 and seconds of hold on white knuckle it's exciting
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Gaming can make a better...
Now, I also agree that that is rational, for now. But it is not, by any means, an optimal situation. We have to start making the real world work more like a game. I take my inspiration from something that happened 2,500 years ago. These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles.
Video examples
What metamorphosis can...
knuckles it's actually when you pull the joints you generate negative pressure in the joint itself and thus the dissolve gas is actually nucleate and that's the very similar phenomena that we actually observe in metamorphosis metamorphosis is a very difficult time because water
Video examples
Vik Muniz: Art with...
I rented a tuxedo for the first time in my life, picked the thing -- didn't have any friends. On my way out, I had to break a fight apart. Somebody was hitting somebody else with brass knuckles. They were in tuxedos, and fighting. It was very ugly.
Video examples
Why do your knuckles...
It also contains phagocytic cells that help clean up any bone or cartilage debris that ends up in the joint. But the reason it's important for knuckle cracking is that, like other fluids in your body, it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules.
Video examples
Jakub's First Sturgeon PIPE...
foot two okay tell you the sample sure well you want to be just below the knuckles so we'll make our first cut right there so it doesn't harm the fish at all nope I'm very sorry for the fish but I really hope that it will help for
Video examples
Andrew Q and A PIPE Beyond...
let's put it those are those are the main secrets I'll start with this one it's like a deep muscle stimulator it's called but it's basically a massager like a hardcore self massager mine's named air knuckle my nick name is fair
Video examples
Life Beyond the Sun by...
something hardest facts no gas to truck with Ugly Duckling shut-in tight just knuckle tumbling all alone pure rock and ice then slowly like a pocket mine you gathered lint for company hydrogen
Video examples
Stolen Mummy's Left Hand...
you see the most detailed fingernails and wrinkles on the knuckles I'm pretty sure as soon as they opened the box they said um this is not a prop this is a real mummified hand
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Something to Prove PIPE Are...
and knuckle down and accomplish something that I really wish I would have accomplished earlier in my life okay so get out of here and go and do this
Video examples
Burnin' Serious Camaro...
it's 12 or 14 and seconds of hold on white knuckle it's exciting
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Jesse Williams
American Actor
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
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Rob Cross
English Celebrity
My old life was really hard. I had to get up at 4:30 A.M. in the morning to pay the bills. You know that if you don't turn up you don't get paid. It has really helped me knuckle down as a dart player and treat it like a job.
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Steve Nicol
Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
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Fallon Fox
American Athlete
I remembered watching the first UFC. You couldn't get it on TV. They were doing it bare knuckles. No gloves. I wanted to do that.
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Gene Fowler
American Journalist
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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Yungblud
English Musician
People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.
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James Arthur
British Musician
I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.
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Trish Stratus
American Athlete
I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.
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Carlos Santana
Mexican Musician
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Jesse Williams
American Actor
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
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Rob Cross
English Celebrity
My old life was really hard. I had to get up at 4:30 A.M. in the morning to pay the bills. You know that if you don't turn up you don't get paid. It has really helped me knuckle down as a dart player and treat it like a job.
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Steve Nicol
Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
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Fallon Fox
American Athlete
I remembered watching the first UFC. You couldn't get it on TV. They were doing it bare knuckles. No gloves. I wanted to do that.
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Gene Fowler
American Journalist
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Quote examples
Yungblud
English Musician
People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.
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James Arthur
British Musician
I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.
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Trish Stratus
American Athlete
I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.
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Carlos Santana
Mexican Musician
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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