Meaning of knort | Babel Free

Definitions

a knob, bump, lump, protrusion or irregularity of the surface, such as in wood

common-gender

Examples

“... i Randen meget ujevne Ringe, der omgiver Larvens Ryg og Sider, og hvori Knorterne sidde indfattede (radviis) som Steene i en Ring.”

... in the edge, very irregular rings, that surround the back and sides of the larva, and in which the bumps are set (row-wise) like gems in a ring.

“Drejere betiener sig særdeles af Knorterne og gamle Birke-Rødder at dreje adskillige smukke Karaf, hvorudi Aarene løber meget krusede igiennem hinanden, og ere skiønne at ansee, naar de derhos laqueres.”

[Wood-]Turners especially exploit the knobs and old birch-roots to turn several beautiful carafes, in which the veins run very curlily through one other, and are pretty to behold, when they are also lacquered.

“Paa Livets den haarde og knudrede Sti / De høvle med megen Umage: / Af Knorterne jevne de een ud af ti; / Af Splinter bli'er mange tilbage. / Men Snedkren den Bane udhøvler Dig net, / Hvor sidst Du henglider saa stille og let.”

On the hard and knobby path of life / They plane [as with a hand plane] with great effort: / Of the knots, they even one out of ten; / Of splinters, many remain. / But the carpenter neatly planes for you that track / On which, in the end, you shall glide upon quietly and easily.

CEFR level