a. [f. KNUCKLE sb. + -Y.] Having large or prominent knuckles.
1870. Daily News, 3 June, 5/4. Such hands!… The sturdy, the knuckly, the wrinkled, and the scarred—all handing in their written bits of paper.
1886. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, x. 121. The hand which I now saw,… was lean, corded, knuckly.
