Abu Rahma says he suffered stab wounds to his thigh and above his knee.
He and Annie, who is 92, have had knee replacements—one for him, two for her.
She always dressed the part, wearing her J. Crew sweaters and knee socks.
I was hit in the left knee, but the bullet only grazed my knee.
“The water was knee high, and there were bodies floating in the streets,” she said.
Once pinned, with my knee on what I made out to be its chest, I knew that I was victor.
The little superintendent laid a knotted hand on Jim's knee.
Not a hint that he ever kissed a woman or ever took a little child upon his knee.
She lifted him from her shoulder, set him on her knee, and gave him a bit of cake.
Persis sat cross-legged, a smoking Sultana, her chin on the back of one hand, one elbow on one knee.
Old English cneo, cneow "knee," from Proto-Germanic *knewam (cf. Old Norse kne, Old Saxon kneo, Old Frisian kni, Middle Dutch cnie, Dutch knie, Old High German kniu, German Knie, Gothic kniu), from PIE root *g(e)neu- (cf. Sanskrit janu, Avestan znum, Hittite genu "knee;" Greek gony "knee," gonia "corner, angle;" Latin genu "knee"). Knee-slapper "funny joke" is from 1955.
early 13c., "to bend the knee, kneel," from Old English cneowian, from cneow (see knee (n.)). The meaning "to strike with the knee" is first recorded 1892. Related: Kneed; kneeing.
knee (nē)
n.
The joint between the thigh and the lower leg, formed by the articulation of the femur and the tibia and covered anteriorly by the patella.
The region of the leg that encloses and supports this joint.
