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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knop \Knop\ (n[o^]p), noun [OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop, G. knopf, Dan. knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. knappr, and E. knap, noun Cf. {Knap}, {Knob}.]
1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. --Ex. xxv. 21.
2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with {finial}; -- called also {knob}, and {knosp}.
{Knop sedge} (Bot.), the bur reed ({Sparganium}); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels. --Prior.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knob \Knob\, noun [A modification of knop. Cf. {Nob}.]
1. A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. --Chaucer.
3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
4. (Arch.) See {Knop}.
{Knob latch}, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knob \Knob\, verb (used without an object) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] --Drant.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
knob
noun
1: a circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: {boss}]
2: a round handle
3: any thickened enlargement [syn: {node}, {thickening}]
4: an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [syn: {pommel}] [also: {knobbing}, {knobbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "knob": anthill, ball, balloon, barrow, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, coarsen, condyle, convex, dowel, down, drumlin, dune, ear, ellipsoid, fell, flange, flap, foothills, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, granulate, handle, hill, hillock, horripilate, hummock, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, pimple, projection, prolate spheroid, protrusion, protuberance, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, rough, rough up, roughen, sand dune, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, swell, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt
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