A small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand.
1 Oh, Hobbs, I wish we could arrange it for bare knucks !
2 I didn't find no knucks on him, and you didn't.
3 The win came after Maryse slipped Miz some brass knucks which he used to knock out Bryan.
4 He didn't have no knucks , boys-thathard-hoofedgranger just naturally tore into the Dutchman with his bare hands.
5 Take them knucks away from him!
6 Next they got their marbles and played " knucks " and "ringtaw" and "keeps" till that amusement grew stale.
7 But it was the high crime of the code to slug him with brass or steel knuckles, commonly called knucks .
8 The fight began when Jerry Durand and his friend rushed me-andit ended when Jerry landed on me with brass knucks .
9 And as for the pummeling I got afterward with the knucks - that was my own lookout-therailroad company is not to blame for that.
10 Knucks , he thought, the cur!
12 "One-ear" Mike relied upon a pair of brass knucks - an heirloom in the family.
13 Plug of Tobacco, a Deck of Playing Cards, a Copy of "Old Sleuth" and a Pair of Brass Knucks .
14 In this game, one boy, called " Knucks , " takes a small marble between his knuckles, then places the clenched hand on the ground.
15 He was keen-eyed, insolent, idle, and, by a small experience in Houston street, would have been qualified for a first-class " knuck . "
16 Oh, Hobbs, I wish we could arrange it for bare knucks !
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