knop
a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
Origin of knop
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How to use knop in a sentence
So look to it that thou smite great strokes, lest our hall lack a gable-knop.
The Story of the Glittering Plain | William MorrisMany of the choir books are medival, with large knops at their angles, and a piece of fringed leather under each knop.
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain | George Edmund StreetFor its determination knop's sodic hypobromite method, on account of its convenience, is now generally preferred.
Hewitt calls attention to the knop, or button, surmounting the helmet, as a peculiarity.
Spanish Arms and Armour | Albert F. CalvertDworzak noted the occurrence of traces of this element in wheat grown along the Nile, and knop found it in the soil.
Barium, A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease | Albert Cornelius Crawford
British Dictionary definitions for knop
/ (nɒp) /
archaic a knob, esp an ornamental one
Origin of knop
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