What is "knurled"

Usage examples of "knurled".

He grasps the knurled cylinder in his left, gives the handle at the top a twirl.

I said with great sincerity as the sweet knurled pinkness came into view.

It lacked the three retractable locking-pins that anchored hers into her skull, although there were knurled discontinuities like knotholes in their places.

The walls were lined with an amazing array of control machinery: switches and ground-glass screens, indicators and dials, knurled knobs and levers.

Alacrity had paid him, passing his benefactor a hip flask of knurled silver.

He could feel the torn, knurled rim that had held the small lens of the eyepiece.

Dhor peered through the transparent dome, saw a cushioned seat, a series of little levers inscribed with characters strange to him and a large knurled ball mounted on a metal rod.

A hooded chair occupied the center of the room, and beside it was a chest-high lectern whose face displayed a number of toggles and knurled wheels.

The screen lights up, and Loudon starts sliding sheets of transparent plastic across a sort of hopper underneath it and cranking a brace of knurled knobs at the sides.

His thick-gloved hands fiddle the crude knurled knobs that control the flow and the pressure, and the plate clears enough to see.

I flushed and hunched my shoulders, then fished out my reader and jiggled my thumbs on its knurled controls.

Inside was the actual cylinder, itself also stainless steel, and sealed at each end with wide knurled caps.

The cylinder had knurled caps at each end, a detail he had missed the first time.

There, in living color, rotating slowly in three dimensional motion, was a stainless-steel cylinder with a knurled cap at each end.

She could casually hook one thumb inside the belt and work the three tiny knurled wheels.