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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

... has tied a knot in his wampum for every Teton," burst from the lips of the captive, with that vehemence with which sudden passion is known to break through the barriers of artificial restraint "if he meets one of them all, in the prairies of the Master of Life, his heart will ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... standing at a window, or walking in a garden, or passing through the streets, or sauntering in any quiet place about the town, you will hear this game in progress in a score of wine- shops at once; and looking over any vineyard walk, or turning almost any corner, will come upon a knot of players in full cry. It is observable that most men have a propensity to throw out some particular number oftener than another; and the vigilance with which two sharp-eyed players will mutually endeavour to detect this weakness, and adapt their game to it, is very curious and entertaining. ...

— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

... about her work in the sunny room, her pretty dimpled arms bared to above the elbow, her lovely cheeks (because of much stooping over the fire) brighter even than the roses after which she had been named, her golden hair done up in a trig, tight knot (as Aunt Hedwig had taught her was the proper way for hair to be arranged while cooking was going on), and over her tidy print gown a great white apron, fashioned in an ancient German shape, as guard against the splash-ings and spillings which even the most careful of cooks cannot ...

— An Idyl Of The East Side - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier

... it can be," said she, picking up her comb from the floor and thrusting it through her hastily twisted knot of hair. "I should not have come here at all if your grandmother had not positively asserted that there would be nothing for me to do but to listen and to write. And Mother Anastasia and Sister Sarah both of them especially instructed ...

— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton

... soul. Myself in cares immersed, I left the child Among his toys—and turn to find him man— But yet so much a boy that boyhood can (Wistfully) Laugh in his honest eyes? Forgive me, Lucio! Tell me, whate'er have slackened, there has slipped No knot of love. To-morrow we'll make sport, Be playmates and invent new games, and old— Wreath ...

— The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" • Q

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