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verb

Knot v. t. (past & past part. knotted; pres. part. 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." "As tight as I could knot the noose."

2.

To unite closely; to knit together.

3.

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. (Obs. or R.)

Knot v. i.

1.

To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled. "Cut hay when it begins to knot."

2.

To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

3.

To copulate; said of toads. (R.)

adjective

Knotted adj.

1.

Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.

2.

Interwoven; matted; entangled. "Make... thy knotted and combined locks to part."

3.

Having intersecting lines or figures. "The west corner of thy curious knotted garden."

4.

(Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.

5.

Entangled; puzzling; knotty. (R.) "They're catched in knotted lawlike nets."

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"Knotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jane Ward, be ye?" he growled, glancing at her from under his knotted eyebrows. "Speakin' of your pets, I should reckon that 'ere brother of yourn wa'n't one that you had tamed down fit to be turned loose. But you tell him for me, the next time you see him, that I'll plug the end of that bridge against ...

— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

... but the glowing end of the cigar disappeared from where it shone some fifteen feet above their heads, and at the end of a few minutes something was lowered down, which proved to be so many sheets tightly rolled up and knotted together. ...

— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn

... and from the cache not far distant were brought quantities of frozen tomcod, seal meat, and salmon berries. Whale oil for illuminating the interior of the snow-covered igloo was bought in puffed out seal bladders, tied at each end by stoutly knotted sinews. ...

— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan

... you've a tongue belonging to you," cried the head. Still I said nothing. Presently, below the head a pair of broad shoulders covered with a red shirt emerged from the hatchway, and I had an unpleasant vision of a bear-like hand grasping a short piece of knotted rope. The next instant a short thick-set man in tarry trousers springing on deck advanced towards me, ominously flourishing the piece of rope. I did not think of running, for I had nowhere to run to, so I stood stock still. Down came the rope on my ...

— The Two Whalers - Adventures in the Pacific • W.H.G. Kingston

... were in her tomb for ever, like the dead and everlasting Egyptians. She was frightened, but fascinated. The collier kept on talking to her, stretching his bare, grey-black hairy arm across her vision, and pointing with his knotted hand. The thick-wicked tallow candles guttered and smelled. There was a thickness in the air, a sense of dark, fluid presence in the thick atmosphere, the dark, fluid, viscous voice of the collier making a broad-vowelled, clapping sound in her ear. He seemed ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

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