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Definition of knot

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Knot (n.) 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..

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Spooled :: Spool (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon..

Knot :: Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

Knotweed :: Knotweed (n.) See Knot/rass.

Tuft :: Tuft (n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers..

Noduled :: Noduled (a.) Having little knots or lumps.

Knot :: Knot (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

Finial :: Finial (n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself..

Knotless :: Knotless (a.) Free from knots; without knots.

Knot :: Knot (n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.

Snarl :: Snarl (v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread..

Untie :: Untie (v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot..

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Snub :: Snub (n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.

Abnodation :: Abnodation (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

Nodular :: Nodular (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot..

Node :: Node (n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

Chignon :: Chignon (n.) A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head..

Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig..

Knotty :: Knotty (superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope..