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amperage (medicine) and knuckle 1, noun (oh)


amperage (medicine)


amperage
Strength of electric current.

See: ampere.


knuckle 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Middle Low German; Origin: kn?kel 'small bone, knuckle']
your knuckles are the joints in your fingers, including the ones where your fingers join your hands
::Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.
a piece of meat around the lowest leg joint of a pig
::a knuckle of pork
near the knuckle
BrE informal rude, or likely to give offence
::Some of his jokes are a bit near the knuckle.
-see also a rap on/over the knuckles at rap 1 (6), rap sb on/over the knuckles at rap 2 (5)