Definition of "knuckle-dusters" []

• Plural form of knuckle-duster. (noun)

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• "While, on the one hand, there were no extra liberty days, no delicacies added to the meagre forecastle fare, nor grog or hot coffee on double watches, on the other hand the crew were not chronically crippled by the continual play of knuckle-dusters and belaying pins."
• "Over the course of its own special Christmas Day, Sky Sports News seethes and throbs across your screen, its various tickers and swooshes augmented by an exploding DEADLINE DAY graphic that lurches out like a set of monogrammed knuckle-dusters crunching your nose flat every five minutes."
• "Every sea-chest broke open, every sea-bag turned out, and whiskey bottles, knuckle-dusters, sling-shots, bowie-knives, an 'guns chucked overside by the armful."