knobbing noun5 •A pattern of knobs or lumps.Consequently, the knobbing is most marked at the costochondral junctions of the ribs, the lower end of the femur , both ends of the fibula and tibia , and the upper end of the humerus . — 1950 •(slang, vulgar) A session of penetrative sexual intercourse or the act of sexual penetration.A knobbing is over before you know it and no harm done to the family but the shame of a dirty photograph can follow a husband into his grave . — 2013 •The process of rough dressing stone; the act of cutting off projecting points from quarried stone. •The practice of cutting off the sharp tips of the horns of cattle, leaving rounded knobs.Could those that are a little dangerous be rendered harmless by knobbing? — 1892 •The amount by which a bowl is wider in the middle than at the top and bottom.The degree of knobbing varies according to the conditions of working and varies between 2 mm . and 8 mm . in circumference . — 1954 formsknobbings