Usually means: Bending fingers to form knuckles.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckling: Merriam-Webster
  2. knuckling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. knuckling: Vocabulary.com
  4. knuckling: Wordnik
  5. knuckling: Wiktionary
  6. Knuckling, knuckling: Dictionary.com
  7. Knuckling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Knuckling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Knuckling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. knuckling: FreeDictionary.org
  11. knuckling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. knuckling: Encyclopedia

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  2. knuckling: Medical dictionary

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  1. knuckling: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (knuckle)

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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