knot

1 :  to tie in or with a knot :  form knots in

2 :  to unite closely or intricately :  entangle

3 :  tie 4b knotted the score

:  to form knots

:  either of two sandpipers (Calidris canutus and C. tenuirostris) that breed in the Arctic and winter in temperate or warm parts of the New and Old World

1 :  a section of rope or string that has been tied together to form a lump or knob or to keep something secure

2 :  ²tangle 1 Comb the knots out of your hair.

3 :  a painful or uncomfortable area in a body part I had knots in my stomach.

4 :  a cluster of persons or things Down the table, the … ladies drew into a knot, to confer. — Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

5 :  the inner end of a woody branch enclosed in a plant stem or a section of this in sawed lumber

6 :  one nautical mile per hour (about two kilometers per hour)

1 :  to tie together in a way that cannot be easily untied I knotted my shoelaces.

2 :  to become tense or tight My stomach knotted while I waited for the dentist.

1:  an interlacing of the parts of one or more flexible bodies (as threads or sutures) in a lump to prevent their spontaneous separation—see surgeon's knot

2:  a usually firm or hard lump, swelling, or protuberance (as in a muscle or on the surface of a bone) or process a knot in a gland a bone with two or three knots