noun. A knob, knot, or other small protuberance.

noun. One of a series of small ridges or grooves on the surface or edge of a metal object, such as a thumbscrew, to aid in gripping.

transitive verb. To provide with knurls; mill.

noun. A knot; a hard substance; a nodule of stone; a protuberance in the bark of a tree.

noun. A deformed dwarf; a humpback.

noun. In photography, a milled-edge roller used for dotting and softening outrunning lines and making dark spaces lighter.

noun. A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

noun. One who, or that which, is crossgrained.

transitive verb. To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

noun. A contorted knot in wood.

noun. A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

noun. A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.

verb. To roll or press a pattern of ridges or indentations into a part for grip.

"It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel."

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