knuckle
n. கைமூட்டி, விரலடி இணை எலும்பு, நாற்கால் விலங்கு வகையில் கணைக்கால், குதிரைமுட்டு, கன்றுக் குட்டி அல்லது பன்றியின் இறைச்சியுடன் கூடிய முழங்கால் முட்டுப் பகுதி, (வினை.) கைமுட்டியால் அடி, கைமுட்டியால் தேய், சிரல் மல்க்கிக் குத்து, முட்டியால் அழுத்து, முட்டி கொண்டு துடை, கோலியாடுகையில் விரற் கணுக்களை நிலத்தின் மேல் வை.
Knuc"kle, n. Etym: [OE. knokel, knokil, AS. cuncel; akin to D. knokkel, OFries. knokele, knokle, G. knöchel, Sw. knoge, Dan. knokkel, G. knochen bone, and perh. to E. knock.] 1. The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers. Davenant. 2. The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being. With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down. Golding. 3. The joint of a plant. [Obs.] Bacon. 4. (Mech.) Defn: The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint. 5. (Shipbuilding) Defn: 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. 6. 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. [Slang.] Knuckle joint (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. -- Knuckle of veal (Cookery), the lower part of a leg of veal, from the line of the body to the knuckle. Knuc"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knuckled;; p. pr. & vb. n. Knuckling.] Defn: To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under. To knuckle to. (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.] Knuc"kle, v. t. Defn: To beat with the knuckles; to pommel. [R.] Horace Smith.