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Meanings of knobbed in English

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

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Usage of knobbed in English
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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
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He climbed up the knobbed trunk and looked in.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Knobbed through the time