KNEECAP • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Kneecap

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/nˈikˌæp/ Listen

Kneecap

noun

A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint. Synonyms: kneepan, patella.

verb

Shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning.

See more definitions of Kneecap...

See images of 'Kneecap'

Etymology of 'Kneecap'

Share |

"Kneecap" Quotes from Famous Books

... every moment. St. Clair sent an aide, Lieutenant Ebenezer Denny, to ask how he was; he displayed no anxiety, and answered that he felt well. While speaking, a young cadet, who stood nearby, was hit on the kneecap by a spent ball, and at the shock cried aloud; whereat the General laughed so that his wounded side shook. The aide left him; and there is no further certain record of his fate except that he was slain; but it is said that in one ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt

... brilliance, what a revolution! Thanks to the antiseptic system operations were performed such as the great Pirogov had considered impossible even in spe. Ordinary Zemstvo doctors were venturing to perform the resection of the kneecap; of abdominal operations only one per cent. was fatal; while stone was considered such a trifle that they did not even write about it. A radical cure for syphilis had been discovered. And the theory of heredity, hypnotism, the discoveries ...

— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... grey of the night there was sounds coming to him, such as had no right to be in the air, and a sort of a shiver laid hold of his heart, like a cold hand flung over his shoulder. As hard as he could lay foot to the ground, away he went down hill, forgetting of his kneecap, for such was the condition of his ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore