knot
Nouns
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(n) a tight cluster of people or things
- a small knot of women listened to his sermon
- the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
- (n) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
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(n) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- the saw buckled when it hit a knot
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(n) something twisted and tight and swollen
- their muscles stood out in knots
- the old man's fists were two great gnarls
- his stomach was in knots
- (n) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude air mile, international nautical mile, mile, nautical mile, naut mi, mi,
- (n) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design slub, burl,
- (n) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback,
Verbs
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(v) make into knots; make knots out of
- She knotted her fingers
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(v) tie or fasten into a knot
- knot the shoelaces
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(v) tangle or complicate
- a ravelled story