knot

Meanings

• 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"
• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
  • "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
• something twisted and tight and swollen
  • "their muscles stood out in knots"
  • "his stomach was in knots"
• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
• make into knots; make knots out of
  • "She knotted her fingers"
• tie or fasten into a knot
  • "knot the shoelaces"
• tangle or complicate

Synonyms

air mile, burl, Calidris canutus, gnarl, grayback, greyback, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, ravel, slub, tangle