verb tangle or complicate.
— synonyms: ravel, tangle
noun a tight cluster of people or things.
noun any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object.
noun a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged.
noun (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour.
noun something twisted and tight and swollen.
— synonyms: gnarl
noun soft lump or unevenness in a yarn.
— synonyms: slub, burl
noun a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere.
— synonyms: greyback, grayback, Calidris_canutus
Examples
“Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.”
“The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.”
“A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.”