bedknob

English

Etymology

bed +‎ knob

Noun

bedknob (plural bedknobs)

1. An ornamental knob at the top of a bedpost.
   • 2015, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia:

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

   • 2011, Hobb Whittons, Blue Fire Burning, page 168:

     He burrowed his head contentedly into his pillow. His happiness, however, did not last long. 'Meat...Where's me meat?' he said, grasping a bedknob in anguish.