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knot

English

🔊 a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
🔊 any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
🔊 a tight cluster of people or things
“a small knot of women listened to his sermon”
🔊 something twisted and tight and swollen
“their muscles stood out in knots”
🔊 a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
“the saw buckled when it hit a knot”
🔊 (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
🔊 soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
🔊 tie or fasten into a knot
“knot the shoelaces”
🔊 make into knots
“She knotted her fingers”
🔊 tangle or complicate
“a ravelled story”