Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The knapweed, Centaurea nigra: so called in reference to the knobbed involucres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A European composite herb (
Centaurea nigra ); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.
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They fabricate likewise all such iron implements as they use very artificially; such as the heads of their darts, fish-hooks, _hooking_ irons, _ironheads_, and great daggers, some of these last being as long as a bill hook, or woodcutters knife, very sharp on both sides and bent like a Turkish cymeter, and most of the men have such a dagger hanging on their left side.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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