Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To give a knobbly surface to.

  2. (transitive)To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.

    knobbled charcoal iron

    a knobbling furnace

Origin

From Middle English knoble; equivalent to knob + -le.

From Middle English knoble; equivalent to knob + -le.

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Forms

knobbles, knobbling, knobbled, knobbled
Base formknobble · to knobble
3rd person singularknobbles
Present participleknobbling
Past simpleknobbled
Past participleknobbled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyknobble
he, she, itknobbles

Past simpleLesson

all personsknobbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave knobbled
he, she, ithas knobbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill knobble

Word family

1 related words
Derivedknobbler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
knitB1knobknockA2knockout

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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