Meaning

3 senses
  1. A contorted knot in wood.

  2. A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

  3. A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.

    Rändelung, Riffelung

    нака́ткаnakátka

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
grip pattern:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
grip pattern:

Origin

From knur + -le (“diminutive”), from Middle English knarre (“knot in wood”), earlier sense

From knur + -le (“diminutive”), from Middle English knarre (“knot in wood”), earlier sense “a stone”, likely influenced by Old Norse knǫrr.

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Forms

plural: knurls
Singularknurl
Pluralknurls

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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