What is the meaning of KNOT. Phrases containing KNOT
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A joining knot used to tie two rope ends of equal size.
A badly tied square knot. Where a square knot is relatively secure, a granny knot is not.
upset ‘Don’t get your knickers in a knot’
Speed in nautical miles per hour. Originally speed was measured by paying out a line from the stern of a moving boat; the line had a knot every 47 feet 3 inches (14.40 m), and the number of knots passed out in 30 seconds gave the speed through the water in nautical miles per hour. Sometimes "knots" is mistakenly stated as "knots per hour," which is incorrect.
Get knotted is slang for go away.
A knot tied in the end of a rope, usually to stop it passing through a hole; most commonly a figure-eight knot.
The torn and knotted corner of a baggie containing drugs
n. a grip or wad of cash. "I always got a fat knot fool, what’s up you wanna go get some eats?"Â
Knotty ash is London Cockney rhyming slang for cash.
A stopper knot shaped like a figure of eight.
Knot−head is slang for a fool or dim−witted person.
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n.
A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
v. i.
To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.
n.
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
n.
See Knot/rass.
a.
Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
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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.
n.
The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
superl.
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
v. t.
To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
v. i.
To knit knots for fringe or trimming.
n.
The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.
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Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
n.
A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
n.
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
a.
Free from knots; without knots.
n.
a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
superl.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
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