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Word entry · 4 letters

knot

Best crossword clue

"Rope tie"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /nɒt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted knotStarts with KEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. tie or fasten into a knot

Word origin

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.

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