knot

• a unit of length used in navigation
• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
• To copulate
• something twisted and tight and swollen
• To unite closely
• a tight cluster of people or things
• 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
• make into knots
• tie or fasten into a knot
• tangle or complicate
• A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling
• A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself
• An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon
• A bond of union
• Something not easily solved
• A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc
• A cluster of persons or things
• A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth
• A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance
• A protuberant joint in a plant
• The point on which the action of a story depends
• A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel´s motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour
• A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet
• A kind of epaulet
• A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne
• To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots
• To entangle or perplex
• To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc
• To knit knots for fringe or trimming
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Cambodia in Kampot

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