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noun

Knop n.

A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button. "Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers."

(Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; called also knob, and knosp.

Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... round Case, between which two, the interstices were fill'd with multitudes of stringie fibres, which seem'd to suspend the lesser Case in the middle of the other, which (as farr as I was able to discern) seem'd full of exceeding small white seeds, much like the seed-bagg in the knop of a Carnation, after the flowers have been two or three days, or a week, fallen off; but this I could not so perfectly discern, and therefore cannot positively ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... The pavement is covered with tumulary stones. Four children of Duke John III. le Roux are buried here, and one of Joan of Navarre and John IV. In the Treasury are several pieces of plate, among which is a Renaissance chalice, with six canopied statuettes of Apostles forming the knop; and a cross of the same period, a chasse of St. Gildas, his head and arm both encased in silver reliquaries. His tomb is in the church. Encrusted in the wall outside the church are the figures of two knights on horseback in mailed armour, ...

— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser