"knuckly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From knuckle + -y.",
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      "form": "knucklier",
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    {
      "form": "knuckliest",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:",
          "text": "a rock-face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins",
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        "Knucklelike."
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          "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.",
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        "Having prominent knuckles."
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  "word": "knuckly"
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