knob
noun
a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
knoblike
-
a word derived from
knob.
Example Sentences
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Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Then there were complicated machines with many levers and dials mounted on their faces, and with huge glass bulbs of peculiar shape with coils of wire connecting to knoblike protuberances of their transparent walls.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Harry Bates
Synaptotylus is distinguished from all other coelacanths by a basisphenoid having large, knoblike antotic processes each connected by a low ridge to a small basipterygoid process.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols
His coat was a tawny lionlike yellow, short, harsh, dense; and his back running up from shoulder to loins ended abruptly in a knoblike tail.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
The ventral surface is thickened and forms a rounded, knoblike articular surface.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols
