Word Meanings - KNEECAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The kneepan. 2. A cap or protection for the knee.

PROTECTIONIST
One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
PROTECTIONISM
The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
KNEEPAN
A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
PROTECTION
A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed