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Meanings of knobbed in anglès

Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.

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Examples for "knotted"
Examples for "knotted"
1
I mean, they don't know... I get knotted up in my words.
Mockingjay
2
As for your bell-cord, it was knotted; it caught in that ring.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
3
He extended his hand to me; it was rough, knotted, and strong.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
4
Tails are knotted with hunger and neglect; bones protrude through the skin.
Alone
5
He knotted his tie hurriedly, askew; and gathered the ends once more.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
1
For he recognized the hollow in the chalk-thegnarled thorn-thewide outlook.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
2
Now in the dusk he faced gnarled and glimmering boughs of fleece.
Kenny
3
The girls were grouped around the gnarled roots of the big tree.
Jane Allen, Junior
4
His upper body is an almost undecipherable gnarled mass of protoplasmic mush.
The thing
5
I started through the trees, moving quickly over gnarled roots and rocks.
Rise
1
In his long, knotty fingers he carried a copy of the Signal.
The Old Wives' Tale
2
It was full of knotty points requiring deep thinking, and the Hon.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
3
Its bark is more rough and knotty than that of the palm-tree.
The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia an...
4
Linking the knotty ribbons, I used six Osmanthus x burkwoodii topiary balls.
The Guardian
5
He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp.
The Eternal Maiden
1
Then there's the gnarly question of who do the emissions belong to?
Reuters
2
The really gnarly part is the neither-fish-nor-fowl nature of the show itself.
Wired
3
They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at.
Wild Apples
4
Suffering with redness or have a surprise visit from a gnarly pimple?
News.com.au
5
Imagine a bad fall resulting in injury, or a gnarly, unexpected storm.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of knobbed in anglès
1
It is a knobbed, irregular root, and when cooked resembles the ginseng.
First Across the Continent / The Story of the Exploring Expediti...
2
She pulled the knobbed lever once more, but the light stayed green.
Acts of faith
3
Then he got violent-triedto get at me with his knobbed stick.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
4
He shook out his lace cuffs and, seizing his silver-knobbed cane, stood.
The dog said bow-wow
5
She pulled on the knobbed trumpet and the machine kept rising.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
6
Suddenly the thin path opened out into a small meadow, knobbed with boulders.
Broken Circle
7
She walked toward them leaning on a knobbed staff with a carved finial.
The Valley of Horses
8
There, on the plush cushion lay merely a round knobbed ring!
The Romance of Elaine / Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
9
Peeking from one edge, barely visible, a tiny brown cylinder knobbed at one end.
Cross Bones
10
He had a commanding, heavily knobbed brow, and small grey eyes of intense severity.
If Winter Comes
11
Marian MacAdam grasped it, her fingers knobbed with arthritis but surprisingly soft and warm.
Damaged
12
Beneath knobbed horns, their faceted eyes blazed like sapphire chips.
To Die in Italbar
13
The rod moved, the tip rather than the knobbed head being pointed at the body.
Key Out of Time
14
A mile away the long, flowery slopes ended in a knobbed hill revealed through smoke.
Aladdin O'Brien
15
In his hand he carried a huge metal-knobbed stick.
The Courage of Captain Plum
16
He climbed up the knobbed trunk and looked in.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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