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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU]On Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] PF's knackle of walnutsFrom Don JohnsonRe Matt's query re KNACKLE. I think I ran this down once as a dialectical item but can't locate it at the moment. The answer, however, is the Russian word gorst' meaning "hollow of the hand, a cupped hand" or "a handful' I often find it useful when pondering some of VN's usages in PF to check Vera Nabokov's Russian translation. She uses gorst' for KNACKLE and is, I think, an authoritative source.Search the Nabokv-L archive at UCSB
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