knee
/ni/ verb C2- To poke or strike with the knee. · When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.
- To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
He/she/it knees · Past kneed · Past participle kneed · -ing form kneeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- knee
- He/she/it
- knees
- Past
- kneed
- Past participle
- kneed
- -ing form
- kneeing
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I was staring at the strange message which I had scrawled, as he deciphered it, upon a sheet of foolscap on my knee.
There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps.
And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy’s knee.
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
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