Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
After tightening her collar, Stella assumed slave posture: on her knees, legs slightly spread, palm resting face-up on her thighs.
A doctor comes to his house and gives him shots of cortisone to calm the arthritic pain in his knees.
I made my way, on hands and knees, to a bed near the dictating voice.
“Now get on your knees and crawl,” he demanded with the slap of a leather horse crop against the palm of his hand.
He sat with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, staring at the grass.
Andrew had dropped to his knees and turned the body upon its back.
His knees pressed the long holster of an old-fashioned rifle.
Still on my knees, I had thrown my face across the chair she had sat in.
Hester threw herself on her knees, and buried her face in her mother's lap.
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.
Related Terms
bees knees, cut oneself off at the knees, cut someone off at the knees, get taken off at the knees
