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Knot logo #10101) Amoret 2) Bad lace-up result 3) Bad spot for a nail 4) Ball of string 5) Bend or hitch 6) Bird of reef 7) Bit of macrame 8) Board defect 9) Board flaw 10) Boat speed unit 11) Bow feature 12) Bowline 13) Bowline or clove hitch 14) Bowline or sheepshank 15) Bowline or slide 16) Bunch 17) Carrick bend
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Knot logo #10101) Bend 2) Bind 3) Bow 4) Bowknot 5) Brainteaser 6) Burl 7) Cluster 8) Complexity 9) Enigma 10) Gnarl 11) Group 12) Lump 13) Mess 14) Node 15) Protuberance 16) Reef 17) Sheepshank 18) Skein 19) Slipknot 20) Slub 21) Snarl 22) Tangle 23) Tie 24) Unite
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  1. a tight cluster of people or things
  2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
  3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
  4. something twisted and tight and swollen
  5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; ......
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    knot logo #22081 A measure of the ship?s speed made by counting the knots on a log-line paid out to a float for thirty seconds. A ship travelling at 8 knots is moving 8 nautical miles an hour.
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    Knot logo #21795 A unit of speed
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    Knot logo #21002• (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter. • (v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. • (v. t.) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. • (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It i...
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    knot logo #22637A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to enclose or bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to an object, or to tie the ends of two small ropes together.
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    knot logo #21003(from the article `wood`) Relatively more important from the practical point of view is variation caused by the presence of defects such as knots, spiral grain, compression ...
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    Knot logo #20933 In lumber, the portion of a branch or limb of a tree that appears on the edge or face of the piece.
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    Knot logo #20935a knot is formed when a branch becomes embedded in the trunk. While they can increase the resistance of timber to splitting, they can seriously effect the bending strength of joists, floorboards etc. See wood.
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    knot logo #209731. To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled. 'Cut hay when it begins to knot.' (Mortimer) ... 2. To knit knots for fringe or trimming. ... 3. To copulate; said of toads. ... 1. A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc, by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. A lum...
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    knot logo #21001(not) an intertwining of the ends or parts of one or more threads, sutures, or strips of cloth. in anatomy, a knoblike swelling or protuberance. surgeon's knot , surgical knot a knot in which the thread is passed twice through the first loop and once through...
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    knot logo #22290 A flaw in a gemstone that is at the surface of a gem after polishing making a small raised bump on the finished gemstone. ^top
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    KNOT logo #10444A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to enclose or bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to an object, or to tie the ends of two small ropes together
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    Knot logo #20972Knot intransitive verb 1. To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled. « Cut hay when it begins to knot Mortimer. 2. To knit knots for fringe or trimming. 3. To copulate; -- said of toads. [ R.] Shak.
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    Knot logo #20972Knot noun [ Middle English knot , knotte , Anglo-Saxon cnotta ; akin to Dutch knot , Old High German chnodo , chnoto , German knoten , Icelandic kn...tr , Swedish knut , Danish knude , and perhaps to Latin nodus . Confer...
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    Knot logo #20972Knot transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Knotted ; present participle & verbal noun Knotting .] 1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. ' Knotted curls.' ...
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    Knot logo #22651A hard cross grained piece in a board generally from a branch protrusion; may loosen over time and fall out of the board.
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    Knot logo #21172A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to enclose or bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to an object, or to tie the ends of two small ropes together.
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    knot logo #22633A fastening made by interweaving rope to form a stopper, to encloseor bind an object, to form a loop or a noose, to tie a small rope to anobject, or to tie the ends of two small ropes together.
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    Knot logo #22324(Nautical mile per hour) The most common measure of aircraft speed. 100 knots is equal to 115 miles per hour. (For miles per hour, multiply knots by 1.15.)
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    knot logo #20974greyback 2 grayback 2 Calidris canutus noun a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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    knot logo #21221(bird) Wading bird belonging to the sandpiper family. It is about 25 cm/10 in long, with a short bill, neck, and legs. In the winter, it is grey above and white below, but in the breeding season, it is brick-red on the head and chest and black on the wings and back. It feeds on insects...
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    knot logo #21221(unit) In navigation, unit by which a ship's speed is measured, equivalent to one nautical mile per hour (one knot equals about 1.15 miles per hour). It is also sometimes used in aviation
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    Knot logo #23811A closed three-dimensional circle that is embedded and cannot be untangled.
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