knob

knob
    n 1: a circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: {knob},
         {boss}]
    2: a round handle
    3: any thickened enlargement [syn: {node}, {knob}, {thickening}]
    4: an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or
       dagger [syn: {knob}, {pommel}]
    

Knob \Knob\, v. i.
   To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.]
   --Drant.
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Knob \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.
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   2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock,
      door, or drawer. --Chaucer.
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   3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.]
      --Bartlett.
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   4. (Arch.) See {Knop}.
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   {Knob latch}, a latch which can be operated by turning a
      knob, without using a key.
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Knop \Knop\ (n[o^]p), n. [OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop,
   G. knopf, Dan. knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud,
   Icel. knappr, and E. knap, n. Cf. {Knap}, {Knob}.]
   1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
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            Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops
            and their flowers.                    --Ex. xxv. 21.
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   2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp.,
      the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then
      synonymous with {finial}; -- called also {knob}, and
      {knosp}.
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   {Knop sedge} (Bot.), the bur reed ({Sparganium}); -- so
      called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.
      --Prior.
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116 Moby Thesaurus words for "knob":
      anthill, ball, balloon, barrow, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb,
      blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulbil,
      bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot,
      chine, clump, coarsen, condyle, convex, dowel, down, drumlin, dune,
      ear, ellipsoid, fell, flange, flap, foothills, gall, geoid, globe,
      globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet,
      granulate, handle, hill, hillock, horripilate, hummock, hump,
      hunch, jog, joggle, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump,
      mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountain, nevus,
      nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet,
      papilloma, peg, pellet, pimple, projection, prolate spheroid,
      protrusion, protuberance, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, rough,
      rough up, roughen, sand dune, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule,
      spine, stud, style, swell, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca,
      vesicle, wale, wart, welt