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balighot [ba.lig.hut.] : knot (n.)

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knot
n. (group)1. knota 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"
~ bunch, clump, cluster, clusteringa grouping of a number of similar things.; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"
n. (artifact)2. knotany of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object.
~ barrel knot, blood knota knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times.
~ bow, bowknota knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces.
~ carrick benda knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers.
~ clove hitcha knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar.
~ fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixingrestraint that attaches to something or holds something in place.
~ figure eight, figure of eighta knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose.
~ fisherman's benda knot for tying a line to a spar or ring.
~ fisherman's knot, truelove knot, true lover's knota knot for tying the ends of two lines together.
~ gordian knotan intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia.
~ half hitcha knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double.
~ hawser benda knot uniting the ends of two lines.
~ hitcha knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
~ loop knotany of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope.
~ love knot, lover's knot, lovers' knot, true lover's knot, true lovers' knota stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love.
~ overhand knota simple small knot (often used as part of other knots).
~ prolonge knot, sailor's breastplatea knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage.
~ sheepshanka knot for shortening a line.
~ slipknota knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made.
~ square knota double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords.
~ stopper knota knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole.
~ surgeon's knotany of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures.
~ turk's headan ornamental knot that resembles a small turban.
n. (substance)3. knota hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged.; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
~ woodthe hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees.
~ plank, boarda stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes.
n. (shape)4. gnarl, knotsomething 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"
~ distorted shape, distortiona shape resulting from distortion.
n. (quantity)5. air mile, international nautical mile, knot, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical milea unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.
~ nautical linear unita linear unit of distance used in navigation.
n. (attribute)6. burl, knot, slubsoft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design.
~ raggedness, roughnessa texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven.
n. (animal)7. calidris canutus, grayback, greyback, knota sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere.
~ sandpiperany of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers.
~ calidris, genus calidrisa genus of Scolopacidae.
v. (creation)8. knotmake into knots; make knots out of.; "She knotted her fingers"
~ create from raw material, create from raw stuffmake from scratch.
~ macramemake knotted patterns.; "macrame a plant holder"
v. (contact)9. knottie or fasten into a knot.; "knot the shoelaces"
~ tie, bindfasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair"
v. (contact)10. knot, ravel, tangletangle or complicate.; "a ravelled story"
~ enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine, entwinespin,wind, or twist together.; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"