KNOT

Definition:

1. [noun] a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
   
   
2. [noun] any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
   
   
3. [noun] a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
   
   
4. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: gnarl
   
   
5. [noun] a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
   Synonyms: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
   
   
6. [noun] soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
   Synonyms: slub, burl
   
   
7. [noun] a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
   Synonyms: grayback, Calidris canutus
   
   
8. [verb] make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
   
   
9. [verb] tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
   
   
10. [verb] tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
    Synonyms: ravel, tangle
    
    

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Related Words:

• macrame
• barrel knot, blood knot
• bow, bowknot
• carrick bend
• clove hitch
• figure eight, figure of eight
• fisherman's bend
• fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot
• Gordian knot
• half hitch
• hawser bend
• hitch
• loop knot
• love knot, lover's knot
• overhand knot
• prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate
• sheepshank
• slipknot
• square knot
• stopper knot
• surgeon's knot
• Turk's head

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