(UK) The prank of knocking on somebody's front door and running away before it is opened.

(idiomatic) To have personal or social connections.

(intransitive, dated) To acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.

present participle of knobble

simple past tense and past participle of knobble

Possessing a bumpy surface; knobbly.

Alternative form of knobkerry

A surname.

(transitive) To put an end to; to defeat or frustrate (a scheme or project).

A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.