Knuckling Down means resting the knuckles on the ground while shooting.
Number two knuckles down at the taw line and shoots, as did number one.
Dabsters are little squares of cloth or skin laid under the knuckles when playing to keep them from being cut by constant contact with the hard ground.
Here it will be seen that the line of the knuckles is not perpendicular, but slopes outwards and downwards from the knuckle of the forefinger to that of the fourth.
I felt the cut of his teeth where my knuckles struck them as I sent him suddenly full length on the ground.
Tiger, sir, tiger," said the Colonel, rapping with hisknuckles upon the table.
He rapped gently with his knuckles on the door, and immediately the door was opened.
Her skirt showed one or two rents where, in her haste, it had been forced through stiff underbrush, and the knuckles of her hands were stained with fresh earth, as though she might have crouched upon the ground somewhere to escape detection.
An' didn' I never tell you 'bout de chicken hawk as busted his knuckles all up tryin' to fly off wid de weather-vane down on de stable dar?
Didn' I never tell you 'bout de bantam hen dat got her knuckles scyared up wid de water snake?
The judge dealt him a friendly blow on the back, then stood off and regarded him with a glance of great jocularity, his plump knuckles on his hips and his arms akimbo.
Then becoming aware of the small figure which had stolen up the path as he slept and now stood before him in the uncertain light, he fell to rubbing his eyes with the knuckles of his plump hands.
In our set the boy whose knuckles had the deepest cracks in them was a prominent and admired figure, crowned, as you might say, with an imaginary chaplet by reason of his chaps.
On the Fourth of July you occasionally burned your hands and in cold winters they chapped extensively across the knuckles but these were but the marks and scars of honorable endeavor and a hardy endurance.
Terry rubbed his chin with his knuckles thoughtfully.
Terence rose from his chair, more colorless than ever, the knuckles of one hand resting upon the table.
Whilst he was in the midst of this childish abandonment to his grief a set of knuckles softly and hesitatingly tapped the door from without, and directly afterwards a hand made a tentative respectful sort of attempt upon the handle.
Both Bill and Virginia started with amazement at the sound of tapping knuckles on the door.
Taking one hand from the controls, Dave dug knuckles into his tired eyes and sighed heavily.
No, it's the common sense up here," declared the commander, tapping his knuckles against the side of his head.
He cracked his knuckles on the table and shouted: "But do you know--can you imagine what he said after I had twice assured him as to those dividends on common, replying to his repeated questions?
This is the matter with them," said Bart, as he pointed to the part just above where the knuckles came and where the stuffing of the glove had been kneaded aside so that a blow given would be almost like one with the bare fist.
Frank politely, while his knucklesdug deep into his captive's neck.
Kiss the flag," cried Frank, now thoroughly aroused, his knucklesshowing white as they gripped his captive's collar.
So the Twins took their knuckles out of their eyes and began to smile.
Kit and Kat thought she was going to say that they couldn't go, so they dug their knuckles in their eyes and began to cry.
Mr. Thurston gripped tight hold of the gunwale, and as reward for his chivalry had his knuckles rapped sharply by the oar-blade.
He sat up and cracked his hugeknuckles boastfully.
At times she would sit down with us and, with her soft cheek dimpled by the knuckles of her little hand, she would listen to our talk; her big clear eyes would remain fastened on our lips, as though each pronounced word had a visible shape.
I was as solid standing there as this," he tapped lightly with his knuckles the wall beside his chair.
He leaned over the table with his knuckles propped amongst coffee-cups, liqueur-glasses, cigar-ends.
She was standing erect, her hands held down by her sides and clenched together till the knuckles were white; all her body strung high--like an over-pitched violin.
Squire Norman sat quite still; his right hand resting on the writing-table before him became clenched so hard that the knuckles looked white and the veins red.
It was an inshoot, and the batter afterward declared it grazed his knucklesas it passed.
If I had not already left the marks of my knuckles on you I would slap your face.
The man was smoking a black, foul-smelling pipe, while the hands which held a pink-tinted illustrated paper were enormous, with huge knuckles and joints.
On one cheek Merriwell's knuckles cut through the skin, and the blood began to run, creeping down to his chin and dropping on the bosom of his white shirt.
The leader next says, "Knucklings" and doubles his knuckles up on the back of "Down" in leaping over.
There was a moment of silence during which the giant once more blinked his eyes and cracked his knuckles together.
Curlie blew the shortest whistle several times and the giant began a wild, frenzied dance; a longer whistle and he swung his arms and cracked his iron knuckles together; still another and he began snapping his clanking jaws.
All the while the giant continued to dance and grimace, swing his arms and crack his knuckles while the angry mob, thirsting for revenge, pressed closer, ever closer to their goal.
Suddenly he dug the dirty knuckles of one fist into his eyes.
It was a powerful hand, brown and sinewy, with distorted knuckles and broken nails.
He doubled his arm, the knuckles of the fist toward Algernon's face.
Sir John Capes smoothed his knuckles with silken palms, and with courteous antique grin, responded, "It is a gem I would never dare to offer to a lady's acceptance.
Ethel stared wild-eyed at the speaker, and in the frozen silence of the room her tiny fists doubled until the knuckles whitened.
And hands that found no holds, doubled into bunches of knuckles that impacted on the jaws of the watchers who strove to tear hand-holds from the rope.
You know I can go for months peaceable an' gentle as a lamb, an' then myknuckles actually begin to itch to land on something.
Every time yourknuckles are sore, there's something you don't share.
If he ain't got a couple of knuckles broke in the left hand I'm a geezer.
He smiled again; I wanted to wipe that smile away with a set of knuckles but I knew that all I'd get would be a broken hand against Thorndyke's stone-hard flesh.
She rubbed the sleep from her eyes with swift knuckles and then looked over her hands at me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knuckles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
