Knuckleball
noun, Baseball.
1.
a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
n.
also knuckle-ball, baseball pitch, by 1909, from knuckle (n.) + ball (n.1). So called from the position of the fingers in throwing it. Related: Knuckleballer.
modifier
: a knuckleball artist
noun
A pitch thrown from the knuckles that moves slowly and erratically; butterfly ball: Leonard’s tantalizing knucklers (1906+ Baseball)
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noun, Baseball. 1. a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
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[nuhk-uh l-bohn] /ˈnʌk əlˌboʊn/ noun 1. (in humans) any of the forming a of a finger. 2. (in quadrupeds) a homologous with a wrist, ankle, or finger of humans, or its knobbed end. /ˈnʌkəlˌbəʊn/ noun 1. any bone forming part of a knuckle or knuckle joint knucklebone knuck·le·bone (nŭk’əl-bōn’) n. A knobbed bone, as of […]
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[nuhk-uh l] /ˈnʌk əl/ noun 1. a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx. 2. the rounded prominence of such a joint when the finger is bent. 3. a joint of meat, consisting of the parts about the carpal or tarsal joint of a quadruped. 4. an […]