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A knuckle is a joint on the hand.
Knuckle or knuckles may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Knuckle (film) a 2011 documentary about bare knuckle boxing in Ireland
- Knuckle Bine, a character from the anime/manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Knuckles the Echidna, a fictional character from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
- Knuckles the Echidna (comics), American comic book series
- Knuckles (TV series), television miniseries
Biology and anatomy
edit- 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
People with the name
edit- Knuckles Boyle (1909-1943), American football player
- Frankie Knuckles (1955–2014), American DJ, record producer, and remixer
Other
edit- Brass knuckles (also called knuckles), 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
- Knuckles Mountain Range, Sri Lanka
See also
edit- Knuckle Sandwich (disambiguation)
- Knuckleball, or knuckler, a baseball pitch