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knuckler

noun

Etymology

From knuckle + -er.

  1. derived from *knukilaz✻
  2. derived from *knukil✻
  3. inherited from cnucel
  4. inherited from knokel
  5. suffixed as knuckler — “knuckle + er”

Definitions

  1. A knuckleball.

    • Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.

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