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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) See Knop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [ Obs. ] Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Knobbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Stone Quarrying) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hart in its second year; a young deer. [ Written also knobber. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Knob. ] 1. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Irregular; stubborn in particulars. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [ U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boer D. knopkirie, fr. D. knop-hout, knotty stick + Hottentot kïrri club. ] A short wooden club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]