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KNOTTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tied with a knot
Example:
his carefully knotted necktie
Classified under:
Similar:
fastened; tied (fastened with strings or cords)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Example:
a knobbed stick
Synonyms:
gnarled; gnarly; knobbed; knotted; knotty
Classified under:
Similar:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb knot
Context examples:
At the further end, very much at his ease amongst the aristocrats and exquisites who surrounded him, sat the Champion of England, his superb figure thrown back in his chair, a flush upon his handsome face, and a loose red handkerchief knotted carelessly round his throat in the picturesque fashion which was long known by his name.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Because, he said, I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With his thick knotted arms, his thundering voice, and his bristle of red hair, there was something so repellent in the man that the three brothers flew back at the very glare of him; and the two rows of white monks strained away from him like poplars in a tempest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He bore over his shoulder a great knotted stick with three jagged nails stuck in the head of it, and from time to time he whirled it up in the air with a quivering arm, as though he could scarce hold back from dashing his companion's brains out.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I walked out the back way—just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before—and ran for a huge black knotted tree whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
