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Knob   /nɑb/   Listen
noun
Knob  n.  
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.
3.
A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. (U. S.)
4.
(Arch.) See Knop.
Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.


verb
Knob  v. i.  To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. (Obs.)





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"Knob" Quotes from Famous Books



... and home did trot, As fast as he could ca-per; Dame Gill had the Job to plais-ter his knob, With ...
— Aunt Kitty's Stories • Various
... impressive, those heads on the stakes, if their faces had not been turned to the house. Only one, the first I had made out, was facing my way. I was not so shocked as you may think. The start back I had given was really nothing but a movement of surprise. I had expected to see a knob of wood there, you know. I returned deliberately to the first I had seen—and there it was, black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids—a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and, with the shrunken dry lips showing a narrow white ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... refer, in like manner, to a numbered page, in which there are spear-heads in rows, and sword-hilts in symmetrical groups; and gradually the boy gets a dim mathematical notion how one scimitar is hooked to the right and another to the left, and one javelin has a knob to it and another none: while one glance at your good picture would show him,—and the first rainy afternoon in the schoolroom would for ever fix in his mind,—the look of the sword and spear as they fell or flew; and ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin
... finished his breakfast, put on his hat and got away fairly for the door. When his hand was on the knob be ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... with her hand on the door knob. "I don't want to be forgiven and sympathised with. I just want to be ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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