Crossword clues for knotted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knot \Knot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knotting.]
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To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. ``Knotted curls.''
--Drayton.As tight as I could knot the noose.
--Tennyson. To unite closely; to knit together.
--Bacon.To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
Knotted \Knot"ted\, a.
Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
--Dryden.-
Interwoven; matted; entangled.
Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
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Having intersecting lines or figures.
The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.
--Shak. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
--Percival.-
Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.]
They're catched in knotted lawlike nets.
--Hudibras.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (en-past of: knot) 2 # To exhibit several overlapping knots; to be full of knots. 3 # To be composed of or decorated with knots. 4 # To be or to become anxious; to experience doubt or fear; to empathize strongly.
WordNet
n. 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
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" [syn: gnarl]
a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile]
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design [syn: slub, burl]
a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere [syn: grayback, Calidris canutus]
adj. tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotty, knobbed]
tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" [syn: snarled, snarly]
See knot
Usage examples of "knotted".
Ross absently pulled the cigarette from his mouth and looked at it, brow knotted in concentration.
Hutch tied it securely around the capacitor, knotted it, and looked up.
Nobody she said, the paper towel knotted tight in her hand, turning for the harsh chromo of boats on green water.
The badge embroidered over his left breast was quite unfamiliar to Javan, as was the unusual cincture of braided red and gold knotted over the black cassock.
I had learned the basics, but knitting for me was still a pitched battle with knotted thread and slippery needles, not the soothing, dreamy exercise that Jamie and Ian made of it, needles clicketing away in their big hands by the fire, comforting as the sound of crickets on the hearth.
Phillipa gathered up the hem of her cotte, knotted it about her ample white hips and went racing to the water to splash and startle Geoffrey, John, Edmund and Lionel.
It did not take long before Estancia was shuddering and shrieking, her hands knotted in his hair, and Freya cried out in her own release.
Skyla quivered, every muscle knotted and strained as Fera moved away from her.
A branch of girt and goodliness, straightway Her spring is turned on herself, and wried And knotted like some gall or veiney wen.
His arms strained, his back knotted, and his teeth grided until his neck grew hard and a fierce growl bellowed out.
Only the amulet on his left wrist was unchanged, and its curiously knotted flax threads and familiar beads gave her a feeling akin to homesickness, for he who wore it seemed a stranger.
Japanese camera had been only borrowed and from now on he would carry his specialized literature, his thick tomes on Baroque iconology, in a crocheted or knotted string bag, on his way, for instance, to Ruhr University.
Cactus had a dagger made of a large cactus thorn, Arrowhead had a little bow and quiver of arrows, Knotweed had knotted rope, Bloodroot had a red bag of fluid that might be blood-poison, and Dogwood had a wooden spear tipped with a large canine tooth.
He wore a blue frock-coat falling in a straight line round his thin body, and his leather cap, with its lappets knotted over the top of his head with string, showed under the turned-up peak a bald forehead, flattened by the constant wearing of a helmet.
Then the men of the towne called in their dogs, and took me and bound mee to the staple of a post, and scourged me with a great knotted whip till I was well nigh dead, and they would undoubtedly have slaine me, had it not come to passe, that what with the paine of their beating, and the greene hearbes that lay in my guts, I caught such a laske that I all besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung, and enforced them to leave off.