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knop
[ nop ]
noun
- a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
knop
/ nɒp /
noun
- archaic.a knob, esp an ornamental one
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knop1
1325–75; Middle English; Old English cnop; cognate with Dutch knop, German Knopf
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knop1
C14: from Germanic; compare Middle Dutch cnoppe bud, Old High German knopf
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Example Sentences
So look to it that thou smite great strokes, lest our hall lack a gable-knop.
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Many of the choir books are medival, with large knops at their angles, and a piece of fringed leather under each knop.
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For its determination Knop's sodic hypobromite method, on account of its convenience, is now generally preferred.
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Hewitt calls attention to the knop, or button, surmounting the helmet, as a peculiarity.
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Dworzak noted the occurrence of traces of this element in wheat grown along the Nile, and Knop found it in the soil.
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