What is "truelove knot"

Truelove \True"love`\, n.

1. One really beloved.

2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.

3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
   --T. R. Lounsbury.

   Under his tongue a truelove he bore.
   --Chaucer.

   Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.

n. a knot for tying the ends of two lines together [syn: fisherman's knot, true lover's knot]