The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
A metal cover trim that fits over a panel rib after it has been cut and bent.
A cap or strong covering for the knees, used chiefly for horses, to protect their knees in case of a fall.
To destroy the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
To attack (someone) in a way that is excessively and needlessly damaging: To cut (someone) off at the knees.
The kneecap.
One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
A scute.
An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)