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Definition of Knuckly
1. having prominent knuckles [adj -LIER, -LIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knuckly
Literary usage of Knuckly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"knuckly [nuuk-ulee], vtr Applied to the stalks of corn, &c. To become crippled,
or beaten down. •I be afeard that there whate 'ont Stan' up ..."
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"... over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples
and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, ..."
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