knobbiness

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knob

(nŏb)

1. A rounded protuberance.

a. A rounded handle, as on a drawer or door.

b. A rounded control switch or dial.

3. A prominent rounded hill or mountain.

[Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German, knot in wood.]

knobbed (nŏbd) adj.

knob′bi·ness n.

knob′by adj.

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knobbiness

(ˈnɒbɪnəs)

the quality or condition of being knobby

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The verses from the Gospel Seryozha knew fairly well, but at the moment when he was saying them he became so absorbed in watching the sharply protruding, bony knobbiness of his father's forehead, that he lost the thread, and he transposed the end of one verse and the beginning of another.

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The crows saw the emptiness, the knobbiness, and they knew that there had been a death (Salkey 66-67) Here the Indian associations of immortality that have often linked the banyan to the past and ancestors are taken a step further with the banyan being regarded as a witness to history.

Indian veneration of trees and plants in selected Caribbean poems: potent plants and foliaceous men

(My handlebars turned out to be perfectly adequate, by the way, and the knobbiness of my tires sufficient.