knobble

noun
/ˈnɒb.əl/UK

Etymology

From Middle English knoble; equivalent to knob + -le.

  1. inherited from knoble

Definitions

  1. A small knob.

    • […] I stared down into the chasm of this baby’s mouth, where the little pink knobble at the back of his throat was wiggling with the wind of his howl.
  2. To give a knobbly surface to.

  3. To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before…

    To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.

    • knobbled charcoal iron
    • a knobbling furnace

The neighborhood

Derived

knobbler

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for knobble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA