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Definition of Knobble
1. Noun. A small knob.
Definition of Knobble
1. Noun. A small knob. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knobble
1. knubble [v KNOBBLED, KNOBBLING, KNOBBLES] - See also: knubble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobble
Literary usage of Knobble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"knobble-TREE. The head. Suffolk. KNOBBLY. (1 ) Full of knots or lumps. Var.
dial (2) Stylish. Somerset. ... KNOCK-knobble R. The name of the person who ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"KNOB, ». A round tumour. South. KNOBBER, *|». The hart in its se- KNOBLER, J cond
year. knobble, r. To hammer gently. Weit. knobble-TREE, ». The head. Suf. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Ger. calls it knobble or Knottie Couchgrass. (3) Scleranthus annuus, L.—Lyte.
(4) Lyte calls Hippuris vulgaris, L., ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Also used thus, ' My knees knapped together' = knocked together. knobble Tree.
The head. It is of course implied that the head is wooden. ..."
5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... knobble, bob, bur, bud, croche (tech.), cascabel, pommel, whelk. 2. See HILL.
knobby, a. bossy; spec, nubby, lumpy, knobbly, knotty, ..."
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