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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
Gordian | extremely intricate, usually in phrase `Gordian knot' |