Knotting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knot \Knot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Knotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Knotting}.]
     1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form
        a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls."
        --Drayton.
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              As tight as I could knot the noose.   --Tennyson.
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     2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon.
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     3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the
          southern hemisphere [syn: {grayback}, {Calidris canutus}]
       v 1: make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der
            fingers"
       2: tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
       3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: {ravel}, {tangle}]
          [ant: {unravel}, {unravel}]
       [also: {knotting}, {knotted}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knotting
       See {knot}