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knot meaning and definition
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Definition of knot (noun)
- 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"
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
- 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
- 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
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
- synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback
KNOT verb
Definition of knot (verb)
Source: Princeton University Wordnet