Unscramble knot

Definition of knot

noun:

• 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".
• 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; "the saw buckled when it hit a 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". Synonyms: gnarl.
• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude. Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile.
• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design. Synonyms: burl, slub.
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere. Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback.

verb:

• make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers".
• tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces".
• tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story". Synonyms: ravel, tangle. Antonyms: unknot, unravel.

Related words

bow, bowknot, hitch, macrame, sheepshank, slipknot.

Words nearby

knit, knob, knout, know, knox, knut, not, snot.

Rhymes with

allot, baht, blot, clot, cot, dot, hot, jot, khat, lat, lot, lotte, montserrat, mott, not, plot, pot, rot, sadat, scot.