knop

American  

[nop] / nɒp /

noun

1. a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.

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knop British  

/ nɒp /

noun

1. archaic a knob, esp an ornamental one

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Etymology

Origin of knop

1325–75; Middle English; Old English cnop; cognate with Dutch knop, German Knopf

Example Sentences

Above the knop the shaft has simpler treatment, being worked with quatrefoils in square panels, all in relief.

From Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. by Connecticut, Diocese Of

Chalices were-composed of three parts: the cup, the ball or knop, and the stem, with the foot.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Here, however, the figures of supernatural beings are replaced by rosettes and by two lines of the knop and flower ornament.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

It has a spire-like top with windows and pinnacles between round its base, a feature which is repeated on the knop.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The knop has eight roundels with niello crosses crossleted; on the stem are saints in niello in vesicas.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)