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Definition of Kneecaps
1. kneecap [v] - See also: kneecap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kneecaps
Literary usage of Kneecaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fox-hound, Forest, and Prairie by Edward Pennell Elmhirst (1892)
"With muttered blessings, and a hot, flushed face, he tore off the bandages and
kneecaps left on by the porter as part of his hunting accoutrements ..."
2. Manual of Artificial Limbs: Artificial Toes, Feet, Legs, Fingers, Hands by George Edwin Marks (1905)
"Two fractured kneecaps. I am wearing your braces for two fractured kneecaps, and
they are giving- entire satisfaction. Can get along without crutches or ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"I see his beautiful linen frock . . . from ankle to kneecaps. I see his sword
golden-hilled, inlaid, its in scabbard of white silver, etc. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"... but the use of any kind of bandages or kneecaps after this period has been
discouraged, and their application permitted, as in the case of the splint, ..."