knot
Meanings
- 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"
- "his stomach was in knots"
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
- make into knots; make knots out of;
- "She knotted her fingers"
- tie or fasten into a knot;
- "knot the shoelaces"
- tangle or complicate;
- KNOT v KNOTTED, KNOTTING, KNOTS to tie in a knot (a closed loop)
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
knot is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordknot is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
knot is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
knot is a valid Words With Friends word