knob

1 a circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: boss]

2 a round handle

3 any thickened enlargement [syn: node, thickening]

4 an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [syn: pommel] [also: knobbing, knobbed]knobbed adj : used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty]knobbed See knob

English

Verb

knobbed

1. present participle of knob

A knob is a round handle one pulls or twists:

• Doorknob, a round handle one turns to open a door
• Control knob, controls a device
• Brodie knob on the steering wheel

Knob may also refer to a prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.

burled, gnarled, gnarly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, nappy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, pily, pitted, shaggy, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous