Knobbed (Adjective)
Meaning
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The knobbed fingers of the old carpenter told a story of decades spent hammering and shaping wood.
- After centuries, the tree had developed a knobbed and twisted trunk, with gnarled branches stretching up to the sky.
- As the door creaked open, it was pulled by a knobbed and worn hand that belonged to a person well past their prime.
- Her face was lined and weathered, her eyes crinkled and bright under knobbed brows.
- Years of experience were written all over his knobbed cane, the hand-polished handle and rusty hinge worn to perfection.