Knuckle (disambiguation)
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A knuckle is a joint on the hand.
Knuckle or knuckles may also refer to:
Places
- Knuckles Mountain Range, Sri Lanka
People with the name
- Knuckles Boyle (1909-1943), American football player
- Frankie Knuckles (1955–2014), American DJ, record producer, and remixer
Biology and anatomy
- Knuckles, the dorsal crenulations (bumps) of the gray whale where most whales have a dorsal fin
- Knuckle-walking, a form of quadrupedal walking in which the forelimbs hold the fingers in a partially flexed posture that allows body weight to press down on the ground through the knuckle
- Pork knuckle, a part of a pig's leg used as the basis of the traditional German dish Eisbein
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Knuckle (film) a 2011 documentary about bare knuckle boxing in Ireland
- Knuckles the Echidna, fictional Sonic the Hedgehog video game character
- Knuckles the Echidna (comics), American comic book series
Implements
- Brass knuckles (also sometimes called knuckles, knucks, brass knucks, knucklebusters, knuckledusters, an English punch, or a classic), weapons used in hand-to-hand combat
- Knuckle coupler, a railway coupling, a mechanism for connecting rolling stock in a train
- Knuckle joint (mechanical), used to connect the two rods which are under the tensile load
Other uses
- Knuckleball, or knuckler, a baseball pitch thrown to minimize the spin of the ball in flight, causing an erratic, unpredictable motion
See also
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