Crossword-Solution: KNEEPAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Kneepan | n. | A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| It articulates with the femur | 1 answer |
| Kneecap | 3 answers |
| Patella | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KNEEPAN (5)
Rodomont fain would close upon his foe; But his foot fails him, weakened by the wound, Which pierced his thigh: he overtasked his might; And on his kneepan fell the paynim knight.
THE KNEE is strengthened by the patella_, or kneepan (_patella_, little dish), a chestnut-shaped bone firmly fastened over the joint.
The great muscles of the thigh acting over the kneepan tend to bend the body forward, but the muscles of the calf neutralize this action.
The _patella_, or kneepan, has no corresponding bone in the arm; and the _carpus_, or ankle, which corresponds to the wrist, contains seven instead of eight bones.
This grave man was a German, and there was a rumour among young sportsmen that old Neefit paid this highly-skilled operator £600 a year for his services! Nobody knew as he did how each morsel of leather would behave itself under the needle, or could come within two hairbreadths of him in accuracy across the kneepan.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2022).