[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

knot \knot\, v. t. imp.  p. p. knotted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   knotting.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            as tight as i could knot the noose.   --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to unite closely; to knit together. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. to entangle or perplex; to puzzle. obs. or r.
      1913 webster
see also:
knotted knotting 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

knot
     n 1: a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women
          listened to his sermon"
     2: any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope
        or cord upon itself or to another rope or to another
        object
     3: a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a
        branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
     4: 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
     5: 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
     6: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or
        created by design syn: slub, burl
     7: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the
        southern hemisphere syn: grayback, calidris canutus
     v 1: make into knots; make knots out of; "she knotted der
          fingers"
     2: tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
     3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" syn: ravel, tangle
        ant: unravel, unravel
     also: knotting, knotted
see also:
gnarl nautical mile mile mi naut mi international nautical mile 
air mile slub burl grayback calidris canutus 
ravel tangle unravel knotting knotted 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

knotting
     see knot
see also:
knot 

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