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Knot

noun

1.

A tight cluster of people or things. "The bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"

2.

Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object.

3.

A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged.

4.

Something twisted and tight and swollen. Synonym: gnarl. "The old man's fists were two great gnarls" , "His stomach was in knots"

5.

A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude. Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile.

6.

Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design. Synonyms: burl, slub.

7.

A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere. Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback.

verb

(past & past part. knotted; pres. part. knotting)

1.

Make into knots; make knots out of.

2.

Tie or fasten into a knot.

3.

Tangle or complicate. Synonyms: ravel, tangle.

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"Knot" Quotes from Famous Books

... look attractive after having been hanged, and the indentation of the hangman's rope on every one of their necks, with the mark of the knot under the ear, gave such an impression of all that can be conceived of devilish horror as would baffle the conceptions ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... and Aunt Lydia, hypnotized as she was by the telephone conversation, had presence of mind enough to open the door and receive a square box tied with purple ribbon. She dexterously untied the loose bow knot, and withdrew from its tissue wrappings, a fragrant bouquet of violets. An envelope enclosing a card fell to the floor. With suppleness hardly to be expected from one of her years, she stooped to pick it up, and in a twinkling had the donor's name ...

— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford

... now?" said Coble. "Smash my timbers, but they've played old Harry with the rigging. We must knot and splice." ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... proudly up in a corner of the room, and stood back awhile to look at it. My first effort at electioneering. There was no immediate sensation, for everybody else was too busy over his own affairs to notice my little poster, and so I went about from one little knot of talkers to another, hanging shyly on the outskirts in the hope that, when it broke up, I might lead the way casually towards ...

— If I May • A. A. Milne

... imitated the University students,—wore gay-colored caps, dark golden-red bands, and carried canes adorned with tassels; but I wore over my wild hair a pointed Calabrian hat, around my neck a loose silk handkerchief fastened together in an artistic knot, and in unpleasant weather a cloak, the red-lined corner of which I threw ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors: German • Various

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