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On the top of the low-browed head was a tangled thatch of wool through which emerged a pair of knob-like horns.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

Scott yelled as a shining cylinder dropped from a knob-like protuberance on the under-side of the pirate vessel.

"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 11 Johnny Pez 2010

Indeed, a curious knob-like feature that Dr. Falk saw in pictures of Einstein's motor cortex might be due to his early musical training.

Heady Theories on the Contours of Einstein's Genius 2009

You open the cabinet by placing a magnetic knob-like "key" against the door, which draws a metal latch forward and unlocks the door.

Review: KidCo Adhesive Mount Cabinet/Drawer Lock | Thingamababy 2005

Underneath they wore long white priests 'robes of wool; these were open from top to bottom, closed by little knob-like buttons and slit straps of leather.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

When the water gets sucked down, watch out for a rock with a great knob-like piece on it.

The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

_Knap_, a hillock, a head, or knob, (2.) a knob-like bud, as of the potatoe.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

The head is very big, and the eyes stand out from it on knob-like excrescences.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

The word is also used of other objects which have a projecting knob-like character, _e. g._ button-mushrooms, the button of an electric bell-push, or the guard at the tip of a fencing foil; or which resemble a button in size and shape, as the button of metal obtained in assaying operations.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

The quiver was a piece of strong bamboo matting, and would contain sixty barbed arrows a yard long, and tipped with an iron spike either flattened and sharpened like a knife or rounded like a nail; other arrows, used for knocking over birds, had knob-like heads.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell