a. Also 9 nobbed. [f. KNOB sb. or v. + -ED.] Furnished with or having a knob or knobs; formed into or ending in a knob.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 280/1. Knobbyd, as hondys or other lymmys, callosus. Knobbyd, or knottyd as trees, vertiginosus, verticosus.

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1563.  Sackville, in Mirr. Mag., Induct., xxxix. His knuckles knobd.

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1673.  Grew, Anat. Roots, i. § 6. Round [roots] are Tuberous, or Simply Knobbed, as Rape-Crowfoot.

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1776–96.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 230. Pist[il]…. Summit knobbed.

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1794.  G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., IV. xlix. 333. Experiments on the preferable utility of pointed or knobbed conductors, for preserving buildings from lightning.

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1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 583. The workman [glass-blower] having … taken possession of the globe by its bottom or knobbed [ed. 1875 II. 657 knobbled] pole attached to his punty rod.

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1850.  H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., x. (1874), 188. The knobbed surface of the thong.

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