1) 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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1) 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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- 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; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; ......
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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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A unit of speed
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KNOT (1450 AM) and FM translator K265CI (100.9) are commercial radio stations in Prescott, Arizona, simulcasting to the Flagstaff-Prescott, Arizona, area. In August 2011, the stations dropped classic country and switched to a 1960s oldies format. Bo Woods, who worked at Los Angeles oldies station KRTH, 2002-06, is the program director and morning ...
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[heraldry] http://books.google.com/books?id=aOxDAAAAIAAJ The Cincinnati Northern is a corporation of the State of Ohio, having its principal office at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Northern was originally incorporated as The Dayton and Cincinnati Terminal Railroad Company. The records reviewed indicate that the Cincinnati Northern is con...
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[hieroglyph] The ancient Egyptian knot hieroglyph, or girdle knot, Gardiner sign listed no. S24, portrays a reef knot. Besides its use as a hieroglyph, it has usage in statuary and reliefs; it is also an amulet, typically made of worked stone, or as jewellery elements. ==Language usage== The knot hieroglyph is used in the Egyptian language ...
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[papermaking] Knots are unwanted, large, dark aggregates of wood fibres when making chemical pulp. Knots are incompletely cooked wood chips coming out of the digester. Their origin is often dense parts of branches, such as compression wood or timber knots – hence the name. Knots can also stem from large/oversized wood chips due to insuffi...
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[unit] The knot (pronounced not) is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile (1.852 km) per hour, approximately 1.151 mph. The ISO Standard symbol for the knot is kn. The same symbol is preferred by the IEEE; kt and NMPH are also seen. The knot is a non-SI unit that is `accepted for use with the SI`. Worldwide, the knot is used in meteoro...
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• (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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A 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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(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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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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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. ... 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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(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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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 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 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 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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(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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greyback 2 grayback 2 Calidris canutus noun a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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(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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(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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A closed three-dimensional circle that is embedded and cannot be untangled.
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