Dictionary Entry
knuckle
knuckle is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
- 2noun
The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- 3noun
The joint of a plant.
- 4noun
The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A 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; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster.
- 7intransitive verb
To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under.
- 8transitive verb
To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.
- 9noun
a joint of a finger when the fist is closed
- 10verb
shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground
- 11verb
press or rub with the knuckles
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