Definitions for knuckle-joint

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knuckle-joint knuckle joint

Knuckle-Joint is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 581 anagrams from letters in knuckle-joint (-ceijkklnnotu).

Definitions for knuckle-joint

noun

1. a joint forming a knuckle.
2. Machinery. a joint between two parts allowing movement in one plane only.

Origin of knuckle-joint

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for knuckle-joint

When practising, I play everything very slowly, raising my fingers high and straight from the knuckle joint.

I call to memory his having almost cut off the index finger of his left hand, putting the axe right thru the knuckle joint.

When the fingers are longer than the width of the hand across the knuckle joint, it is not an advantage but a detriment.