melon-bulb: Meaning and Definition of

mel•on-bulb

Pronunciation: (mel'un-bulb"), [key]
— n. Furniture.
  1. a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found esp. on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
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