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Knotting Up

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noun

• the act of tying or binding things together

30%8 A great weight lifted, boat ultimately secured by man, tying up rope
noun

• a tight cluster of people or things

• 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

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

verb

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

29%4 Does a knotting job
noun

• a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture

• tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

verb

• make lacework by knotting or looping

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