knot

What does knot mean?

• noun

  soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• verb

  tie or fasten into a knot

• verb

  tangle or complicate

• noun

  something twisted and tight and swollen

• noun

  a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

• noun

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

• noun

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

• noun

  a tight cluster of people or things

• verb

  make into knots; make knots out of

• noun

  (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

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