Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a knob or knobs; knobby; in entomology, terminating in a knob or dilated part, as the antennæ of a butterfly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See
Illust ofantenna .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
knob .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
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Examples
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Michael reached into his satchel again and drew out the largest of the knobbed whelks his brother had given him.
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She died when she was seven, a skinny little girl with knobbed knees and a bucktoothed smile.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Here in Massachusetts it used to be you'd be up on charges and maybe find yourself in the stocks if you weren't in your assigned pew on Sunday. of course they'd bonk you on the head if you fell asleep during the sermon (with a special knobbed clonker!) and fine you if you didn't bring a loaded musket!
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There on the windowsill in his room were three shells, knobbed whelks, mementos of his older brother, who had been a fisherman.
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In my family we have what some have called a perfect nose; straight, not too big or too small, not upturned or knobbed.
Big Nose, Little Nose, Young Nose, Blue Nose « Colleen Anderson 2010
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From the presence of knobbed horns, I presumed the long-necked creature to be a stylized Asian representation of a giraffe.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck 2010
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She died when she was seven, a skinny little girl with knobbed knees and a bucktoothed smile.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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He paused, his knobbed fingers pulling out thread after thread.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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From the presence of knobbed horns, I presumed the long-necked creature to be a stylized Asian representation of a giraffe.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck 2010
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He paused, his knobbed fingers pulling out thread after thread.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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