Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of knob
- not comparableHaving a knob or knobs.
a knobbed chromosome
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1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, London: J. Nourse, Volume 4, Chapter 11, The Camelopard, pp. 299-300, No animal, either from its disposition, or its formation, seems less fitted for a state of natural hostility; its horns are blunt, and even knobbed at the ends; its teeth are made entirely for vegetable pasture […]
The chairs […] were railed with white bars across the back and knobbed with gold; neither the railings nor the knobs invited to ease.
1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in CranfordFor it's been a hard life, thought Mrs. Dempster. What hadn’t she given to it? Roses; figure; her feet too. (She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.)
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Māori pūrekereke
- pūrekerekeequipped with a knob
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Cite this entry
knobbed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knobbed
“knobbed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knobbed. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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