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Dictionary definition for: Knot
1. (n) a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
2. (v) make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
3. (n) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
4. (v) tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
5. (n) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
6. (v) tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
7. (n) something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots" "the old man''s fists were two great gnarls" "his stomach was in knots"
8. (n) a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
9. (n) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
10. (n) a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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