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Definition of Kneepans
1. kneepan [n] - See also: kneepan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kneepans
Literary usage of Kneepans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"said the old gentleman. " Step higher! Step now, or I'll crack open yer kneepans,
ye robin's-egg." "Thinks he's having a bad time," remarked Ephraim. ..."
2. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"An old doctor came to me once (this is literal fact) with some contrivance or
other for people with broken kneepans. As the patient would be confined for a ..."
3. Pedagogical Articles: Linen-measurer by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener (1904)
"A connoisseur would also have said that there was only one stock in Russia which
could produce such broad bones, such immense kneepans, such hoofs, ..."
4. The Autocrat of the breakfast-table by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1907)
"... other for people with broken kneepans. As the patient would be confined for
a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. ..."
5. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1904)
"A woman thirty-five years of age had both kneepans broken. Erysipelas and other
complications prevented the use of the usual surgical appliances for keeping ..."
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