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444 [knȯᶊɩ, k‘nȯᶊɩ],, a protuberance; an object of a coarse, knobby appearance; a k. o’ a tail. knust,, and knyste, , knobby log of wood,  knyst, , knyst,, bunion, and knose,, protuberance.

knott [knɔt, knåt, k‘nɔt, k‘nåt], , 1) roundish lump. 2) a person with a short and stout body, a k. o’ a man (chield, fellow). The word, in sense 2, is to be derived rather from Old Northern than from knot,  knott,, a short, stout body ( a ball; log; cone); knǫttr,, a ball; globe. Originally the same as the word.

knotti (knutti) [k‘noti],, properly a ball (for a game of ball), football, in later use a cork, a cork-stopper, used in football-playing, replacing a proper ball; to play k. A boy’s game. Instead of using the feet in hitting these corks, hooked, wooden sticks are (were) used, but otherwise the game is (was) essentially the same as football-playing. — knǫttr,, a ball, inter alia for a game of ball (football). The word, however, is lost in this application in the Scandinavian countries.

knubbi [knobi],, tabu-name in fishermen’s for potato. ? a log, club, and the same word as ,

knugl, knugel [kn$i$ogəl (kᶇogəl), k‘ᶇogəl],, protuberant knot or unevenness.. knykill,, a small knob or swelling, knykil [kni̇̄tᶊɩl],, from b) small projecting crag; further: knoklar,, lumps, as on frozen ground. — The form with gl indicates the word to be an old Norn word, and not  knuckle. — , , ,  , are   or closely cognate with the word here treated.
 * knuk-, a) lump; protuberant knot;

knuglet [kn$i$oglət (kᶇoglət), k‘ᶇoglət], now more : knugli, knugl-y [kn$i$ogli (kᶇogli), k‘ᶇogli],, full of projecting knots, knobby, uneven; a k. staff, a k. (knobby, useless for building purposes), a k. hand. . of the preceding word. knoklutt, , lumpy, uneven, and knoklet, knoglet,, bony.

knurr [knorr],, a slight sound, a murmur; no [‘not’] a k., not the slightest sound or indication.
 * knurr. See the word.

knurr [knorr],, to produce a slight sound, to whisper, murmur; negatively. More as a substantive; see preceding. knurra, knurre, to produce a sound, to grumble, murmur.

kobb [kɔb, kȯb],, a young seal. Papa Stour. kobbi,, a seal. See, , , which is another form [ kópr].

kobbi [kȯbi] and kobbek [kȯbək], , 1) : the hollowed stone or wooden box from which a pig eats its food., 2) : a wooden vessel, small tub. May be either koppr,, a cup, small vessel (for a change pp > bb in Norn see Introd. V — also N.Spr. VII — § 38 a), or kubbe,, a log of wood; stub of a tree, kubb,, in inter alia applied to a flat-bottomed cargo-boat, kubbi and kubbr, , a stump., however, easily merges with, ;

kobbirobbis [kɔb··irɔb·is], , small, detached, ragged clouds. seals’ tails. See , for through influence of the preceding word -. ,, , a tail. See , , = . A more