To grow into knobs; bunch.
To produce a knob or knobs upon.
To free from knobs, as stone in the quarry, in rough-dressing it.
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A rounded projection; a protuberance; a bunch; a knop.
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A fleshy protuberance; a pimple.
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A rounded projection forming the termination of something, as of a staff: specifically, the more or less ballshaped part of the handle for a door, drawer, or the like.
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A prominent isolated hill; a hill generally: same as mound in Wisconsin and Iowa, and butte in the Cordilleran region. [Southern and western U. S.]
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In entomology, a dilated outer portion of a part. Specifically — An expanded apical portion of an insect's antenna, as in a butterfly. In Diptera, the capitulum or outer portion of the halter or balancer. The distended outer portion of a fly's proboscis.
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In a cannon, the spherical part at the rear end of the piece, forming the opposite extremity to the muzzle: it is a part of the cascabel. In ships' guns a breeching-loop takes the place of the knob.
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In architecture, specifically, a bunch of leaves, flowers, or similar ornaments, as the boss at the intersection of ribs, the end of a label or other molding, or a bunch of foliage in a capital. In this sense also called knop and knot. See cut under boss.
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Same as knobstick.
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The rudiment of a deer's antler. Compare knobber.
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A small flock, less than 30, of ducks: an English sporting-term.