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greyback grayback Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
barrel knot
blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
bowline
bowline knot | a loop knot that neither slips nor jams |
fisherman's knot
true lover's knot truelove knot | a knot for tying the ends of two lines together |
| French knot | a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric |
| Gordian knot | an 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 |
granny knot
granny | a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure |
| knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
| loop knot | any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope |
love knot
lovers' knot
lover's knot
true lovers' knot
true lover's knot | a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love |
Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker knot | a kind of stopper knot |
| overhand knot | a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) |
prolonge knot
sailor's breastplate | a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage |
reef knot
flat knot | a square knot used in a reef line |
sheet bend
becket bend
weaver's knot
weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
| square knot | a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords |
| stopper knot | a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole |
| surgeon's knot | any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures |
| sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword |
| Windsor knot | a wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie |
slub
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burl | soft lump or unevenness in a yarn, either an imperfection or created by design |
| Gordian knot | any very difficult problem, insoluble in its own terms |
| Granny Smith | apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh |
| knot | 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 |
grandma
grandmother
granny
grannie
gran
nan nanna | the mother of your father or mother |
| granny | an old woman |
granny's bonnets
Aquilegia vulgaris | common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers, naturalized in United States |
nautical mile mile mi naut mi
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international nautical mile
air mile | a unit of length used in navigation, exactly , meters, historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude |
knot
gnarl | 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 |
| black knot | disease of plum and cherry trees characterized by black excrescences on the branches |
| pine knot | a joint of pine wood used for fuel |
| knot | a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged, the saw buckled when it hit a knot |
| knot | tie or fasten into a knot, knot the shoelaces |
ravel
tangle knot | tangle or complicate, a ravelled story |
| knot | make into knots, make knots out of, She knotted her fingers |