| 单词 | knob handle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknob handle C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘in the form of a knob; rounded and protuberant’, e.g. knob handle. Cf. knob-end n. 1, knobhead n. 1. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 21 They made a certayne kynde of heades whyche men call..syluer spone heades, for a certayne lykenesse that suche heades haue wyth the knob ende of some syluer spones. 1793 J. Read Summary View Spontaneous Electr. Earth & Atmosphere iv. 25 A small hole..receives screws made with rising knob heads, by which the plates are screwed in their places. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. v. 212 An old buck-rabbit with a nob tail. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 936 It has a nob-handle standing upward. 1962 Mem. Amer. Acad. Rome 27 174 The heads are pear-shaped, broadest at the top, with knob ears. 2015 Britannia 46 22 A large lid with a worn, irregularly shaped perforation in the top of the knob handle (probably damage). < as lemmas |
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