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According to WordNet, the noun "knot" has 7 sense(s).

107960384 a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest".

104948905 soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design.

115102712 a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot".

113660337 a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.

102028900 a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere.

113885836 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".

103627232 any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object.

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