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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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
His hand slid downward to where the rich Persian carpet was neatly tucked around the base of the post, and suddenly his exploring fingers touched a slight knoblike projection.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
There is a knoblike process on the crest at a point three fourths the length of the baculum from its base.
From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by John A. White
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
