Knock-knee: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a st…

An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of t…

To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to c…

To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls;…

Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.

Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.

In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees.

A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by youn…