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knobbed, a.|nɒbd, -ɪd| Also 9 nobbed. [f. knob n. or v. + -ed.] Furnished with or having a knob or knobs; formed into or ending in a knob.
c1440Promp. Parv. 280/1 Knobbyd, as hondys or other lymmys, callosus. Knobbyd, or knottyd as trees, vertiginosus, verticosus. 1563Sackville in Mirr. Mag., Induct. xxxix, His knuckles knobd. 1673Grew Anat. Roots i. §6 Round [roots] are Tuberous, or Simply Knobbed, as Rape-Crowfoot. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 230 Pist[il]... Summit knobbed. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 333 Experiments on the preferable utility of pointed or knobbed conductors, for preserving buildings from lightning. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 583 The workman [glass-blower] having..taken possession of the globe by its bottom or knobbed [ed. 1875 II. 657 knobbled] pole attached to his punty rod. 1850H. Miller Footpr. Creat. x. (1874) 188 The knobbed surface of the thong. |