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A knot tied in the end of a rope, usually to stop it passing through a hole; most commonly a figure-eight knot.
n. a grip or wad of cash. "I always got a fat knot fool, what’s up you wanna go get some eats?"Â
upset ‘Don’t get your knickers in a knot’
A stopper knot shaped like a figure of eight.
Get knotted is slang for go away.
A joining knot used to tie two rope ends of equal size.
The torn and knotted corner of a baggie containing drugs
Knot−head is slang for a fool or dim−witted person.
Knotty ash is London Cockney rhyming slang for cash.
A badly tied square knot. Where a square knot is relatively secure, a granny knot is not.
Speed in nautical miles per hour. Originally speed was measured by paying out a line from the stern of a moving boat; the line had a knot every 47 feet 3 inches (14.40 m), and the number of knots passed out in 30 seconds gave the speed through the water in nautical miles per hour. Sometimes "knots" is mistakenly stated as "knots per hour," which is incorrect.
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v. i.
To knit knots for fringe or trimming.
a.
Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
n.
A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
n.
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
v. i.
To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.
n.
The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.
superl.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
a.
Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
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A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
v. t.
To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
a.
Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
n.
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
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Free from knots; without knots.
superl.
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
n.
A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
n.
See Knot/rass.
n.
a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
n.
The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.
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