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Meaning of KNOTTED

Pronunciation:  'nâtid

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
  2. [adj]  tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
  3. [adj]  used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
 
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 Synonyms: crooked, fastened, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotty, snarled, snarly, tangled, tied
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Knot"ted\, a.
1. Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord;
   the knotted oak. --Dryden.
2. Interwoven; matted; entangled.
         Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
                                               --Shak.
3. Having intersecting lines or figures.
         The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.
                                               --Shak.
4. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly
   composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the
   rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered
   surface; as, knotted rocks. --Percival.
5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.]
         They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. --Hudibras.
 
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