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Knotted

adjective

Tied with a knot.

Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots. Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotty. "A knobbed stick"

Knot

verb

(past & past part. knotted; pres. part. knotting)

Make into knots; make knots out of.

Tie or fasten into a knot.

Tangle or complicate. Synonyms: ravel, tangle.

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"Knotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... and painful position, wrestling with my bonds, and speculating on my chances of passing the night by the beck-side. My ankles were tied with my own handkerchief, my wrists with the thong of my own whip, and this especially cut me. It was knotted immovably; but by rolling over and rubbing my face into the turf, I contrived at length to slip the gag down below my chin. This done, I sat up and ...

— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Bladen is got up even more arty than Hubby. Maybe it wa'n't sugar sackin' or furniture burlap, but that's what the stuff looked like. It's gathered jaunty just under her armpits and hangs in long folds to the floor, with a thick rope of yellow silk knotted careless at one side with the tassels danglin' below her knee, while around her head is a band of tinsel decoration that might have been pinched off from a Christmas tree. She's a tall, willowy young woman, who waves her ...

— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... once come to the office a blind man with a knotted twig and a piece of string which he wound round the twig according to some cipher of his own. He could, after the lapse of days or hours, repeat the sentence which he had reeled up. He had reduced the alphabet to eleven primitive sounds; and tried to teach me ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... be played with a knotted towel, though it is perhaps more skillful and interesting when played with a "beetle," a small cylindrical sack about twenty inches long, stuffed with cotton, and resembling in general proportions ...

— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft

... the greater will power now, for Aleck was yet half stunned by what he had gone through. He obeyed every order he received, and carefully knotted ...

— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn

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