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Knobbed

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knob  (nb)
n.
1. A rounded protuberance.
2.
a. A rounded handle, as on a drawer or door.
b. A rounded control switch or dial.
3. A prominent rounded hill or mountain.
[Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German, knot in wood.]
knobbed (nbd) adj.
knobbi·ness n.
knobby adj.
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Adj.1.knobbed - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty
crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
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They mostly lie like the great knobbed blocks on a Gothic spire, forming solid courses of heavy masonry.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
It was then passing over Mabunguru, a stony country, strewn with blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses, like the rocks of Karnak, studded the soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes and elephants whitened it here and there; but few trees could be seen, excepting in the east, where there were dense woods, among which a few villages lay half concealed.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
Slipping across the water, the English sailors bore away bars of silver, bales of linen, timbers of cedar wood, golden crucifixes knobbed with emeralds.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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