Definition of "knucklebones" []

• Plural form of knucklebone. (noun)
• A game with similarities to jacks and dice (noun)
• Dice (noun)

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• "The pain that shot through my knucklebones and up my hand felt good."
• "She wove our clothes, played knucklebones, snakes & ladders, lined up with other women at the well, walked home balancing the vase on her head as she balanced our family, the oikos."
• "Instead of clumps of oak and elm, the West is populated with chapparal of thorns and pungent with oils (I only know that after having walked among ‘em, since we don’t yet have smell-o-vision) and rock outcroppings like giant knucklebones stacked on one another, carved out of red rock or bleaching granite."