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• s  used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
  a knobbed stick

• Sharpened canes, electric cattle prods and steel-knobbed umbrellas can be wrestled from the grasp of a struggling victim and turned against him.
• At Miami Stadium, 30 khaki-clad survivors of the Bay of Pigs marched across the rain-soaked baseball diamond to present Miller with a "revered emblem"a gold-knobbed flagstaff .
• Braver sorts wearing comet-shaped diamond hatpins or toting comet-knobbed walking canes flocked to rooftop parties at the old Waldorf-Astoria.

• gnarled
• gnarly
• knotted
• knotty

Quotes

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• Reggie Jackson in Motorsport.com
  In my lifetime I've played in six World Series, hob-knobbed with movie stars and been a part of the excitement of New York and the Yankees,said Jackson. "With all that, it's hard to get excited over many things. But being behind the wheel...