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▪ I. knurl, nurl, n.|nɜːl|
Also 7–9 knurle.
[app. a derivative (? dim.) of knur; but cf. also knarl, gnarl n.]
1. A small projection, protuberance, or excrescence; a knot, knob, boss, nodule, etc.; a small bead or ridge, esp. one of a series worked upon a metal surface for ornamentation or other purpose.
16082nd Pt. Def. Ministers' Refus. Subscript. 131 [It] grew up naturally from the roote,..without knot or knurle, right and streight. 1611Cotgr., Goderonner,..to worke, or set with knurles. Ibid., Neud, a knot..a knurre, or knurle in trees. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 272 From the crown of the head to the knurles of the gullet is the thirteenth part of the whole altitude. 1658R. White tr. Digby's Powd. Symp. (1660) 117 A knurle either of waxe, gumme, or glue. 1773Phil. Trans. LXIII. 374 Those small fine blue knobs, that are to be seen round the rim or upper knurl of the coat [of a sea-anemone]. 1806J. Grahame Birds Scot. 48 The nest deep-hollowed, well-disguised as if it were a knurll in the bough.
2. A thick-set, stumpy person; a deformed dwarf. dial.
1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words, Knurl, a little dwarfish person. 1793Burns Meg o' the Mill ii, The laird was a widdiefu', bleerit knurl. 1811Willan W. Riding Gloss., Knurl, a hunch-backed dwarf.
3. A knurling-tool.
1879Sci. Amer. XL. 224 Knurls of various patterns..are employed in ‘beading’, ‘milling’, or knurling the heads of screws, the handles of small tools, &c. Ibid., Examples of knurling done with the different knurls.
▪ II. knurl, nurl, v.
[f. prec. n. The vbl. n. knurling is recorded long before the simple vb.]
trans. To make knurls, beadings, or ridges (on the edge of a coin, a screw-head, etc.); to mill, to crenate.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1536/2 A sunken groove, indented so as to form the counter-part of the bead which is to be nurled on the head of the temper-screw. 1879[see knurl n. 3]. |