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To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

Full of knots; gnarled.

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. Dryden.

A knurl. Woodward.

surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling.

w, having wings to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same perpose. -- Thumb ring, a ring worn on the thumb. Shak. -- Thumb stall. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work.…

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.