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knop

[ nop ]

noun

  1. a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.


knop

/ nɒp /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a knob, esp an ornamental one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Many of the choir books are medival, with large knops at their angles, and a piece of fringed leather under each knop.

For its determination Knop's sodic hypobromite method, on account of its convenience, is now generally preferred.

Hewitt calls attention to the knop, or button, surmounting the helmet, as a peculiarity.

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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