Knuckle vs Knucklelike - What's the difference?
knuckle | knucklelike |
Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
(by extension) A mechanical joint.
A cut of meat.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
* Golding
(obsolete) The joint of a plant.
(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.
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; a knuckle duster.
To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
As a noun knuckle
is any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.As a verb knuckle
is to apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.As an adjective knucklelike is
resembling a knuckle or some aspect of one.knuckle
English
Noun
(en noun)- With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down.
- (Francis Bacon)
- brass knuckles
Derived terms
* brass knuckles * knuckle down * knuckle joint * knuckle under * knuckleball * knuckledragger * knuckleduster * knucklehead * knuckle sandwich * near the knuckle * white-knuckled * white knuckle rideVerb
(knuckl)- He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
