Bedknob

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ornamental knob at the top of a bedpost.

    "She had a plastic bag hanging from a bedknob; she'd hawk up and spit the phlegm into it between decades of the rosary."

Example

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"She had a plastic bag hanging from a bedknob; she'd hawk up and spit the phlegm into it between decades of the rosary."

Etymology

From bed + knob.

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