Cuckold's knot
() A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together |
Half-sword
(n.) Half the length of a sword |
Knot
(n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. |
Knot
(n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself. |
Knot
(n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon. |
Knot
(n.) A bond of union |
Knot
(n.) Something not easily solved |
Knot
(n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. |
Knot
(n.) A cluster of persons or things |
Knot
(n.) 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. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth. |
Knot
(n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. |
Knot
(n.) A protuberant joint in a plant. |
Knot
(n.) The point on which the action of a story depends |
Knot
(n.) See Node. |
Knot
(n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour. |
Knot
(n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet |
Knot
(n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot. |
Knot
(n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne. |
Knot
(v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots |
Knot
(v. t.) To unite closely |
Knot
(v. t.) To entangle or perplex |
Knot
(v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc. |
Knot
(v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming. |
Knot
(v. i.) To copulate |
Sword
(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties. |
Sword
(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. |
Sword
(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle |
Sword
(n.) The military power of a country. |
Sword
(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. |
Sword-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a sword |
sword dance
sword dancing | any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air |
knot
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 |
cavalry sword
saber
sabre | a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back |
| fencing sword | a sword used in the sport of fencing |
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
blade brand
steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
sword cane
sword stick | a cane concealing a sword or dagger |
| sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword |
| Windsor knot | a wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie |
slub
knot
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 |
| 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 |
Abu Sayyaf
Bearer of the Sword | a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines, uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping, In Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives |
| sword grass | any of various grasses or sedges having sword-shaped leaves with sharp edges |
kangaroo paw
kangaroo's paw
kangaroo's-foot
kangaroo-foot plant
Australian sword lily
Anigozanthus manglesii | sedgelike spring-flowering herb having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs, Australia |
iris
flag
fleur-de-lis
sword lily | plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing brightolored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals |
gladiolus
gladiola
glad
sword lily | any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers, widely cultivated |
sword bean
Canavalia gladiata | twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans, long cultivated in Orient for food |
| sword fern | any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed |
basket fern toothed sword fern
Nephrolepis pectinata | tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage, West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil |
nautical mile mile mi naut mi
knot
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 |
| sword of Damocles | a constant and imminent peril, the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles |
| 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 |
ensiform
sword-shaped
swordlike
bladelike | shaped like a sword blade, the iris has an ensiform leaf |