Crossword-Solution: KNUCKLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Knuckle | n. | The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers. |
| Knuckle | n. | The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being. |
| Knuckle | n. | The joint of a plant. |
| Knuckle | n. | The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint. |
| Knuckle | n. | 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. |
| Knuckle | n. | 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; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster. |
| Knuckle | v. i. | To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under. |
| Knuckle | v. t. | To beat with the knuckles; to pommel. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “KNUCKLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BONE at finger-joint | 1 answer |
| Hand joint | 1 answer |
| bone at the finger joint | 1 answer |
| ___ under (capitulate) | 1 answer |
| __ under: give in | 1 answer |
| Work hard ("down") | 1 answer |
| Type of sandwich you don't want anywhere near your mouth? | 1 answer |
| Type of pitched ball. | 1 answer |
| Sandwich component? | 1 answer |
| Part of a fist | 1 answer |
| One of 14 in a fist | 1 answer |
| Kind of ball or sandwich | 1 answer |
| Get to work, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Get serious, with "down" | 1 answer |
| FINGER joint | 1 answer |
| Apply oneself to hard work | 1 answer |
| Part of a Hand | 4 answers |
| Punch ingredient | 5 answers |
| Certain joint | 5 answers |
| HAND part | 6 answers |
| Type of sandwich | 7 answers |
| BONE STARTER | 24 answers |
| SLICE of meat | 30 answers |
| ball starter | 30 answers |
| Meat cut | 35 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| sandwich | 49 answers |
| Projection | 54 answers |
| Yield | 63 answers |
| Joint | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KNUCKLE (5)
You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can.” Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling.
Such a service as that was! Each piece was heavy, oh, so heavy! and thick, you know; thick, fat gold, nothing but gold--red, shining, pure gold, orange red--and when you struck it with your knuckle, ah, you should have heard! No church bell ever rang sweeter or clearer.
Willie Woodley kept looking at the ceilings and tapping the walls with the knuckle of a pearl-gray glove; and Mrs.
Romaine to have played knuckle-bones with my life and prospects; cursed them for it roundly; had no wish more urgent than to avoid the pair of them; and was quite knocked out of time, as they say in the ring, to find myself confronted with the lawyer.
After that it was a common thing to see them playing together, the old sailor on his knees, one eye shut, and a marble against the nail of his horny thumb taking aim; Dick and Emmeline on the watch to make sure he was playing fair, their shrill voices echoing amidst the cocoa-nut trees with cries of “Knuckle down, Paddy, knuckle down!” He entered into all their amusements just as one of themselves.
Quotes with KNUCKLE (3)
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Slate, Universal.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).