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Cosa (chi) è knuckle - definizione

JOINT LOCATED IN THE FINGERS

knuckle

(knuckles, knuckling, knuckled)

Your knuckles are the rounded pieces of bone that form lumps on your hands where your fingers join your hands, and where your fingers bend.

Brenda's knuckles were white as she gripped the arms of the chair.

a rap on the knuckles: see rap

N-COUNT: usu pl, oft poss N

knuckle

¦ noun

1. a part of a finger at a joint where the bone is near the surface.

2. a projection of the carpal or tarsal joint of a quadruped.

a joint of meat consisting of such a projection together with the adjoining parts.

¦ verb

1. (knuckle down) apply oneself seriously to a task.

(also knuckle under) submit.

2. rub or press with the knuckles.

Phrases

near the knuckle Brit. informal verging on the indecent or offensive.

rap someone on (or over) the knuckles rebuke or criticize someone.

Derivatives

knuckly adjective

Origin

ME knokel, from Mid. Low Ger., MDu. knokel, dimin. of knoke 'bone'; the verb knuckle (down) derives from the custom of placing one's hands so that the knuckles touch the ground at the start of a game of marbles.

knuckle

n.

1) to rap smb. on, over the knuckles

2) to crack one's knuckles

3) brass knuckles (AE; BE has knuckle duster)

Wikipedia

Knuckle

The knuckles are the joints of the fingers. The word is cognate to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch "knokkel" (knuckle) or German "Knöchel" (ankle), i.e., Knöchlein, the diminutive of the German word for bone (Knochen). Anatomically, it is said that the knuckles consist of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and interphalangeal (IP) joints of the finger. The knuckles at the base of the fingers may be referred to as the 1st or major knuckles while the knuckles at the midfinger are known as the 2nd and 3rd, or minor, knuckles. However, the ordinal terms are used inconsistently and may refer to any of the knuckles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle

Esempi dal corpus di testo per knuckle

1. Some even applauded them for their brass–knuckle tactics.

2. The spokesman suggested a return to bare–knuckle bouts.

3. They did not knuckle down under any pressure and played well," Dravid said.

4. "I used to go up for parts as gay bare–knuckle boxers and nasty debt collectors.

5. In the coach‘s room I tried to knuckle down, to plan ahead.