knot




knot - noun

  • a tight cluster of people or things
  • 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
  • something twisted and tight and swollen
  • a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
  • 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

  • knot - verb

    knot - thesaurus

    burl   gnarl   grayback   greyback   mi   mile   ravel   slub   tangle