knot (
http://definr.com/knot)
n 1: a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women
listened to his sermon"
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"; "the old man's fists were two great
gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" [syn:
gnarl]
5: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the
distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852
meters [syn:
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 [syn:
slub,
burl]
7: sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S
hemisphere [syn:
grayback,
Calidris canutus]
v 1: make into knots; make knots out of
2: tie or fasten into a knot
3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn:
ravel,
tangle]
[ant:
unravel,
unravel]