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Definitions of knot
  1. noun
    soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

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  2. verb
    tangle or complicate

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  3. noun
    something twisted and tight and swollen
    "their muscles stood out in knots" "his stomach was in knots"

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  4. noun
    a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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  5. noun
    a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
    "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
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  6. noun
    any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
  7. noun
    a tight cluster of people or things
    "a small knot of women listened to his sermon" "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
  8. verb
    make into knots; make knots out of
    "She knotted her fingers"
  9. noun
    (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
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  10. verb
    tie or fasten into a knot
    "knot the shoelaces"
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