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a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces" 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"; "the old man''s fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon" any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers" soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters |
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