a. Also nobbly. [f. KNOBBLE sb. + -Y1.] Full of or covered with knobbles; of the nature of a knobble; knobby.

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1859.  Sala, Gaslight & D., xxv. 284. To clink his boot-heels upon the nobbly stones.

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1862.  Tyndall, Mountaineer., xii. 98. The snow was steep but knobbly.

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1894.  Mrs. Caffyn (‘Iota’), Yellow Aster, I. xv. 184. He … returned shortly with a big knobbly parcel in one hand.

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