Noun: knuckle
| Singular | knuckle |
| Plural | knuckles |
Sample Sentences
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With wearie knockles on thy brim she kneeled sadly downe [1567, Ovid, “(please specify the book number or chapter)”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:]
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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.
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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 [1623, Francis Bacon, The History of Dense and Rare:]
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brass knuckles
Nouns inflected like knuckle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill. More at knock. See: Middle English Nouns '
knokel', Old English Nouns '
cnucel', Dutch Nouns '
knokkel', German Nouns '
Knöchel', Old Norse Nouns '
knykill'.
Verbs referencing "knuckle"
German Nouns
Knochen, Italian Nouns
nocca, Danish Nouns
knogle, Swedish Nouns
knoge, Danish Nouns
kno, Dutch Nouns
knokkel.