At 15, she developed iliotibial band syndrome, injuring her knee, and had to surrender her dream.
Now Benny lifted his head up, slapped his knee, and laughed so hard that he almost tumbled over backward.
She wears jeans and knee boots--the rubber kind you wear to work in the yard.
knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.
I was hit in the left knee, but the bullet only grazed my knee.
She merely turned her head and rubbed his knee with her nose.
He had somehow injured his knee that he could not walk a step.
Hot tears fell on Harriet's fashion-book as it lay on her knee.
He sat forward in his chair, his hands folded around his knee, and looked at it.
She unfolded a Star clipping and proudly spread it upon my 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.
