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knobbled

knobbled is the simple past and past participle of knobble.

Meaning of knobble

Verb

knobble (third-person singular simple present knobbles, present participle knobbling, simple past and past participle knobbled)

  1. (transitive) To give a knobbly surface to.
  2. (transitive) To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
    • knobbled charcoal iron

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Adjective

knobbled (comparative more knobbled, superlative most knobbled)

  1. Possessing a bumpy surface; knobbly.

Forms of knobbled

comparativemore knobbled
superlativemost knobbled

Questions about knobbled

What does knobbled mean?
Knobbled means possessing a bumpy surface; knobbly.
What is knobbled the simple past and past participle of?
Knobbled is the simple past and past participle of knobble.
What part of speech is knobbled?
Knobbled is an adjective.

Words near knobbled in the dictionary

  1. knobbiness
  2. knobbing
  3. knobbings
  4. knobbish
  5. knobble
  6. knobbled
  7. knobbler
  8. knobblers
  9. knobbles
  10. knobblier
  11. knobblies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knobbled (page history and authors); knobble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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