Definitions for knob

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knob knob

Spelling: [nob]

IPA: /nɒb/

Knob is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in knob (bkno).

Definitions for knob

noun

1. a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
2. a rounded lump or protuberance on the surface or at the end of something, as a knot on a tree trunk.
3. Architecture. an ornamental boss, as of carved work.
4. a rounded hill, mountain, or elevation on a ridge.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce a knob on.
2. to furnish with a knob.
3. (in stone cutting) to knock off (excess stone) preparatory to dressing; knobble; skiffle.

Origin of knob

1350-1400; Middle English knobbe Middle Low German

Examples for knob

With his hand on the knob of the drawing-room door Austin paused and looked at him.

Terrified, she and her son cried as the man tried to turn the knob of the door where they hid.

Then, after carefully replacing the knob, it could be left there undetected.

The numbers back up what I heard at places like the knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

They stopped at the door, and some one fumbled noisily at the knob.

When Hank comes home and has a little sip of the knob Creek--it was in that scene.

He fumbled for the knob, and it turned with a grating sound.

There was no answer to his knock, and by trying the knob he found that she had locked herself in.

But it was still the place where Kandynce did not need eyesight to find a door or a drawer or a knob.

We had planned a trip to the knob the next day, and were to camp out for the night.