![]() Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. (Naut.) (a) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. I shoulde to the knotte condescend, And maken of her walking soon an end. The point on which the action of a story depends the gist of a matter. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.ħ. ![]() 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. Tennyson.Īs they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief. His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. A cluster of persons or things a collection a group a hand a clique as, a knot of politicians. “Garden knots.” Bacon.įlowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. Something not easily solved an intricacy a difficulty a perplexity a problem.Ī man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. “With nuptial knot.” Shak.Įre we knit the knot that can never be loosed. ☞ The names of knots vary according to the manner of their making, or the use for which they are intended as, dowknot, reef knot, stopper knot, diamond knot, etc.Ģ. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself. (b) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. (a) A fastening together of the parts or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
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