To form a kink or twist.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
To bend the fingers.
To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
To strike or punch.
To yield.
To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
A cut of meat.
The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
A mechanical joint.
The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.