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Definition of Knee pad
1. Noun. Protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football or baseball or hockey players.
Definition of Knee pad
1. Noun. A protective garment worn on a knee to protect it from injury, for example due to a blow or a fall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knee Pad
Literary usage of Knee pad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese as They are: Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs by George Tradescant Lay, Ephraim George Squier (1843)
"This is not so common as an embroidered knee-pad, which is fastened to the same
part. ... They have converted their gyves into graces; for this knee-pad, ..."
2. The Chinese as They are: Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs by George Tradescant Lay, Ephraim George Squier (1843)
"This is not so common as an embroidered knee-pad, which is fastened to the same
part. ... They have converted their gyves into graces; for this knee-pad, ..."
3. A Chinese and English Dictionary, Arranged According to Radicals and Sub by P. Poletti (1896)
"/us full, a knee-pad of leather ; a cap or crown used in worship. ... a knee-pad
of leather ; a white narrow sash or girdle, worn by mourners. pi* n frame ..."
4. The Chinese as They are: Their Moral, Social, and Literary Character. A New by George Tradescant Lay (1841)
"This js not so common as an embroidered knee-pad, which is fastened to the same
part. ... They have converted their gyves into graces; for this knee-pad, ..."
5. The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural History edited by Edward W. Badger, William Jerome Harrison, William Hillhouse (1878)
"The umbrella (for beating into) and the sweeping-net are useless encumbrances
here, but the digger and knee-pad are absolute necessities. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"... numbness about the knee. Pad slightly shifted ; pressure increased by a few
turns of the screws. 9 PM—No pulsation in the swelling; pain from pressure ..."
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