knuckle : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
  bare-knuckle; rough-and-tumble.
  
  • a rough-and-tumble fight
  • rough-and-tumble politics
  • undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism

WordNet

• adjective satellite characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
  bare-knuckle; rough-and-tumble.
  
  • a rough-and-tumble fight
  • rough-and-tumble politics
  • undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism

WordNet

• noun a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand
  knuckles; knucks; brass knuckles; brass knucks.
  

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• verb work very hard, like a slave
  buckle down; break one's back; slave.
  

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• noun a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand
  knuckles; knucks; brass knuckles; brass knucks.
  

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• noun a joint of a finger when the fist is closed
  metacarpophalangeal joint; knuckle.
  
• noun a joint allowing movement in one plane only
  hinge joint.
  

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• (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw between two corresponding projections with eyes, on another piece, and is retained by a pin which passes through the eyes and forms the pivot.

Webster 1913

• (Cookery), the lower part of a leg of veal, from the line of the body to the knuckle.

Webster 1913

• verb consent reluctantly
  give in; succumb; yield; buckle under.
  

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• noun feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied
  pigs' feet.
  

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• . (a) To submit to in a contest; to yield to . Colloq. See To knock under, under Knock, v. i. (b) To apply one's self vigorously or earnestly to; as, to knuckle to work. Colloq.

Webster 1913