Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without
using a key.
Knob, v. i. To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.]
Drant.
Knobbed (?), a. Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See
Illust of Antenna.
The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and
knobbed or tuberous at the bottom.
Grew.
Knob"ber (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Knobbler.
Knob"bing (?), n. (Stone Quarrying) Rough dressing by knocking off
knobs or projections.
Knob"bler, n. (Zoöl.) The hart in its second year; a young deer.
[Written also knobber.] Halliwell.
He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler.
Sir W. Scott.
Knob"bling fire (?). A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.
Knob"by, a. [From Knob.] 1. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard
protuberances. Dr. H. More.