knuckle

Etymology
From, from , from , from , as. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.



Noun

 * 1)  Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
 * 2)  A mechanical joint.
 * 3)  The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
 * 4) The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
 * 5)  A cut of meat of various kinds.
 * 6)  The joint of a plant.
 * 7)  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.
 * 8) 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.
 * 9)   The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)   The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
 * 1)   The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kneukel
 * Arabic:, مَفْصِل, أَشْجَع
 * Egyptian Arabic: عقلة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: става на пръст
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 指關節
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: nukk
 * Finnish: rysty,
 * French: articulation du doigt,, jointure du doigt
 * Galician:, , , , , ,
 * Georgian: თითის სახსარი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: κόνδυλος, ἀστράγαλος
 * Greenlandic: saaneq
 * Hebrew: מפרק האצבע
 * Hungarian:, ujjbütyök,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ingrian: rysty, ryssys
 * Irish: alt
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 指関節
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: piersta lūcaveica
 * Latin: articulus digiti
 * Latvian: pirksta locītava
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombardic: knohha
 * Macedonian: глужд
 * Malay:
 * Maori: monamona
 * Middle English: knokel
 * Middle High German: knöchel
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian: knoke
 * Old English: cnucel
 * Oromo: buusaa
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, junta dos dedos
 * Russian: суста́в па́льца
 * Scottish Gaelic: rùdan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buko
 * Thai: ข้อนิ้ว
 * Tibetan: མཛུབ་མོའི་ཚིགས, སོར་མོའི་ཚིགས
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: knokkel
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: קנעכל
 * Zhuang: lwggyag


 * Bulgarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:


 * Hungarian:, , lábszárhús

Verb

 * 1)  To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
 * He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
 * 1)  To strike or punch.
 * 2)  To bend the fingers.
 * 3)  To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
 * 4)  To yield.
 * 5)  To land on the knuckle  of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
 * 1)  To yield.
 * 2)  To land on the knuckle  of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
 * 1)  To land on the knuckle  of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.