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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[A modification of

knop

. Cf.

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump;

as, a

knob

in the flesh, or on a bone

A knoblike ornament or handle;

as, the

knob

of a lock, door, or drawer

Chaucer.

A rounded hill or mountain;

as, the Pilot Knob

[U. S.]

Bartlett.

(Arch.)

See

Knob latch

a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.

Verb.

To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

[Obs.]

Drant.

Noun.

nob.

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; as a knob in the flesh or on a bone.