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a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon" any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" 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" nautical mile: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers" tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces" slub: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere ravel: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
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A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, cord, webbing, twine, string, strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load". Some knots are well adapted to bind to particular objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, stake or to constrict an object. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot
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Nautical measurement of speed equal to 1.15 miles per hour on land.
출처: www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/7858/glossary....
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In lumber, the portion of a branch or limb of a tree that appears on the edge or face of the piece.
출처: www.nachi.org/glossary/k.htm
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The unit of speed in the nautical system; one nautical mile per hour. It is equal to 1.1508 statute miles per hour or 0.5144 meters per second.
출처: www.novalynx.com/glossary-k.html
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