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1. 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"
    
2. Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
    
3. A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
   "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
    
4. Something twisted and tight and swollen
   "their muscles stood out in knots"; "his stomach was in knots"
   - gnarl
    
5. A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
   - nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
    
6. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
   - slub, burl
    
7. A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
   - greyback [Brit, Cdn], grayback [US], Calidris canutus

1. Make into knots; make knots out of
   "She knotted her fingers"
    
2. Tie or fasten into a knot
   "knot the shoelaces"
    
3. Tangle or complicate
   - ravel, tangle

Sounds like: not

Derived forms: knotting, knotted, knots

See also: knotty

Type of: bind, bunch, clump, cluster, clustering, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, distorted shape, distortion, enlace, entwine, fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast, interlace, intertwine, lace, nautical linear unit, raggedness, roughness, sandpiper, tie, twine, wood

Antonym: unknot

Part of: board, Calidris, genus Calidris, plank

Encyclopedia: Knot