Knop

Quick meaning: Knop is a noun meaning A knob, usually ornamental.

Meaning

A knob, usually ornamental.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) A finial, or swelling termination
2. (sewing) A tuft or overthickened bunch of looped or twisted yarn
3. (botany, art) A closed bud or bud-like, swelling protuberance of a plant, or the representation thereof in the decorative arts

Example Sentences

The thin shaft of each stick, composed of two cylinders on either side of a central knop, is engraved with a scrollwork pattern known as vermicule for its wormlike appearance.

In the three upper elements, the knop-finial-fillet, both masters use all three squares from the base plan forming widths of 1:2:√2 (another pleasing rhythm). In the gable over the window the finials have width in the ratio of √2:4:2. The elements on the pinnacle relate to those on the gable as 1:√2, 1:2 and √2:2.

In the thirteenth century come the chalices of the treasuries of Troyes and Orléans, the one in the latter having been dug up with its paten. They are of very simple design, squat in outline, with a circular foot and a gadrooned knop; the same design occurs in the fourteenth century, on the chalice in the Bordeaux Treasury.

The thick places are created by winding effect yarn around the core yarn. We can distinguish the length of the knop L, its thickness D, the distance between them Q, and the nominal diameter of continuously twisted component yarns d. The sum of the distance between the knops and the length of a knop is the stitch of this kind of fancy yarn.

Word Forms

• knops

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knosp, knub, knottle, drawknob, knob, button.

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