bedknob

noun

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.”

   “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.”