English Dictionary

knuckle

/ˈnʌkəl/

verb

(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles. / (transitive, slang) To strike or punch. / (intransitive) To bend the fingers.

He knuckled down and finished his homework.

意味（1）

(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.

He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.

意味（2）

(transitive, slang) To strike or punch.

I could feel my big toe snap, but as he's gone down on his good knee and half swung round I knuckled him in the kidney as hard as I could hit. He's gone all the way down, so I dropped my 19 stone into the middle of his back.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To bend the fingers.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.

意味（5）

(intransitive, figuratively) To yield.

意味（6）

(snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.