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knuckle

1. a joint of a finger, esp that connecting a finger to the hand
2. the cylindrical portion of a hinge through which the pin passes
3. an angle joint between two members of a structure
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Knuckle

The part of a hinge containing the holes through which the pin passes.
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knuckle

[′nək·əl]
(mining engineering)
The place on an incline where there is a sudden change in grade.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

knuckle

One of the cylindrically projecting parts of a hinge through which the pin passes.
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Boyd Duncan's answer was couched in terms of bunched knuckles, two bunches of them, that landed right and left on Captain Dettmar's face.
"I'll pay the damages to office furniture," Duncan answered, and at the same time landing more bunched knuckles on the eyes and nose of Dettmar.
"That," Boyd Duncan replied, looking ruefully at his battered knuckles.
In such places the imprint of a huge handlike foot and the knuckles of one great hand were sometimes plain enough for an ordinary mortal to read.
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