Usually means: Joint connecting fingers to hand.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word knuckle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knuckle: Merriam-Webster
  3. knuckle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knuckle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knuckle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knuckle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knuckle, knuckle: Wordnik
  8. knuckle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knuckle: Wiktionary
  10. knuckle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knuckle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knuckle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. knuckle: Dictionary.com
  14. knuckle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knuckle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Knuckle (disambiguation), Knuckle (film), Knuckle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knuckle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knuckle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knuckle: Rhymezone
  20. knuckle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knuckle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. knuckle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. knuckle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. knuckle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. knuckle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knuckle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Knuckle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. knuckle: Medical dictionary
  6. Knuckle: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knuckle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckle, knuckle, knuckle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Knuckle, knuckle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See knuckled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
noun:  (by extension) A mechanical joint.
noun:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
noun:  The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
noun:  A cut of meat of various kinds.
noun:  (obsolete) The joint of a plant.
noun:  (shipbuilding) 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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
verb:  (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (sense 1).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To strike or punch.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend the fingers.
verb:  (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To yield.
verb:  (snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.

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