Usually means: Handle for turning or pulling.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word knob:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. knob: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knob: Merriam-Webster
  3. knob, knob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knob: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knob: Vocabulary.com
  7. knob: Wordnik
  8. knob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knob: Wiktionary
  10. knob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knob: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. knob: Dictionary.com
  14. knob: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. KNOB (FM), KNOB (disambiguation), KNOB (duo), KNOB, Knob, The Knob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knob: Rhymezone
  20. knob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. KNOB: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. knob: FreeDictionary.org
  24. knob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. knob: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. knob: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Knob: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. KNOB: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. knob: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knob, knob, knob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. knob: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Knob: Glossary of Insulator Terms

(Note: See knobbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
noun:  A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
noun:  A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
noun:  A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
noun:  A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
noun:  (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
noun:  (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
noun:  (slang) The penis; dick.
noun:  The head of the penis; the glans.
noun:  (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
noun:  (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
noun:  A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
noun:  A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
noun:  (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
verb:  (intransitive) protrude
verb:  (transitive) furnish or produce with a knob, knobble
verb:  (British, slang, vulgar, transitive, of a man) To have sex with.

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