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    • knot :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

    • knot :make into knots; make knots out of
      • She knotted her fingers

    • knot :tie or fasten into a knot
      • knot the shoelaces

    • knot :a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
      • the saw buckled when it hit a knot

    • knot :tangle or complicate
      • a ravelled story

    • knot :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

    • knot :any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

      • knot :(of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

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