KNOBBED

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed

(adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; “gnarled and knotted hands”; “a knobbed stick”

KNOB

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

knobbed

simple past tense and past participle of knob

Adjective

knobbed (not comparable)

Having a knob or knobs.

Source: Wiktionary


Knobbed, a.

Definition: Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

KNOB

Knob, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: See Knop. Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.

Knob, v. i.

Definition: To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] Drant.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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