About The Word Knob
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Knob
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What's The Definition Of Knob?
[n] a round handle
[n] a rounded projection or protuberance [n] an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [n] any thickened enlargement Synonyms | Synonyms for Knob: node | pommel | thickening Related Terms | Find terms related to Knob: anthill | ball | balloon | barrow | bilge | bladder | blain | bleb | blister | blob | boll | bolus | boss | bow | brae | bubble | bulb | bulbil | bulblet | bulge | bulla | bump | bunch | burl | butte | button | cahot | chine | clump | coarsen | condyle | convex | dowel | down | drumlin | dune | ear | ellipsoid | fell | flange | flap | foothills | gall | geoid | globe | globelet | globoid | globule | glomerulus | gnarl | gob | gobbet | granulate | handle | hill | hillock | horripilate | hummock | hump | hunch | jog | joggle | knoll | knot | knur | knurl | lip | loop | lump | mole | molehill | monticle | monticule | moor | mound | mountain | nevus | nub | nubbin | nubble | oblate spheroid | orb | orbit | orblet | papilloma | peg | pellet | pimple | projection | prolate spheroid | protrusion | protuberance | rib | ridge | ring | rondure | rough | rough up | roughen | sand dune | shoulder | sphere | spheroid | spherule | spine | stud | style | swell | tab | tubercle | tubercule | verruca | vesicle | wale | wart | welt See Also | convex shape | convexity | decoration | doorhandle | doorknob | grip | handgrip | handle | hilt | hold | knobble | ornament | ornamentation | projection | stop Knob In Webster's Dictionary \Knob\, n. [A modification of knop. Cf. {Nob}.]
1. A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a
lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock,
door, or drawer. --Chaucer.
3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.]
--Bartlett.
4. (Arch.) See {Knop}.
{Knob latch}, a latch which can be operated by turning a
knob, without using a key.
\Knob\, v. i. To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] --Drant. |
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