Knot: alternatives and connections

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

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An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

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of Cluster

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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

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To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

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To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

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One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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of Fasten

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of Fix

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Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

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To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.

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To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.

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That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in dr…

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To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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The quality or state of being rough.

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Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringi…

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A knot; a fastening.

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A twist; a convolution.

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Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

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knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

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To growl; to snarl.

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To growl; to snarl.

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Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

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Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

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A wild fancy; a confused notion.

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A wild fancy; a confused notion.

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A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

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To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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To growl; to snarl.

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The California gray whale.

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To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a s…

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A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.

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To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

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