knobble

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

• (UK) enPR: nŏ'bəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɒb.əl/

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• Rhymes: -ɒbəl
• Homophone: nobble

knobble (plural knobbles)

1. A small knob.
   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 59, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 524:

     […] 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.

• knobbly

knobble (third-person singular simple present knobbles, present participle knobbling, simple past and past participle knobbled)

1. (transitive) To give a knobbly surface to.
2. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.

   knobbled charcoal iron

   a knobbling furnace