v. Obs. nonce-wd. To make a knee of: in quot., to attach (the toe of a shoe) to the knee by a chain, as was the fashion in the 14th c.

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c. 1630.  Trag. Rich. II. (1870), 50. This chayne doth (as it were) soe tooefy the knee, and so kneefye the tooe, that betweene boeth it makes a most methodicall coherence.

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