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Definition of Knobbers
1. knobber [n] - See also: knobber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobbers
Literary usage of Knobbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Sports: Or, Companion to the Field, the Forest, and the by Harry Harewood (1835)
"After the sixth month the knobs of their horns begin to appear, and thev are
called knobbers till their horns lengthen into spears, and then they are termed ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"History of the Bald-knobbers of Mo. Life of Jesse James, the Younger, Sam Bass.
Foot's Sketches of NC American Journal of Theolog., Jan., 1911. ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Bald knobbers: a romantic and historical novel; with il. by Will Vawter. D.
9-325p. front. $1. (S.) '10. Bowen, BF 10-23131 Tucker, ..."
4. The Struggle for Missouri by John McElroy (1909)
"... knobbers," who had, beside committing other outrages, carried off into Missouri
horses, cattle, furniture, farm implements, and other portable property. ..."
5. The Standard Index of Short Stories, 1900-1914 by Francis James Hannigan (1918)
"McClure 37:20 My '11 Black knobbers' poet. Col 51:7 Je 28 '13 Daown in Missouri.
Col 37:18 Je 2 '06 Final escape. Col 63:12 Mr 28 '14 Fugitive and his Judas ..."
6. The Story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien (1918)
"He went into the Ozarks to write up the Bald knobbers, and he sent picturesque
stories, in the eighties, from No Man's Land, that unappropriated strip ..."
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