knuckle-fender

Updated: June 22, 2025

And yet there is another style of mitten, a large, unshapely, bloated knuckle-fender, stuffed with curled hair, that might be far more appropriate to the operation of shouldering in among such "muscular Christians" as the majority around, on the occasion to which I refer.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861