kneecap

To cripple by shooting in the legs, especially in the knees.

The bone capping the protuberance of the knee; the kneepan; the patella. See cut under knee-joint.

Any covering for the knee, worn as a protection from injury either to the joint or to the clothing that covers it.

Milit., same as genouillère.

A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneepan.

A cap or protection for the knee.

to break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; — often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.

The flat, roundish bone in the knee.