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Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.

The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.

Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots , but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.

A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.

    A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot''' (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical '''knot'''. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial '''knot''' and the pair of '''knots''' become a link. If more than one mathematical ' knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.

I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.

A man shall be perplexed with knots , and problems of business, and contrary affairs.

When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots , since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.

Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.

With lips serenely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.

the knot of the tale

his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries

As they sat together in small, separate knots , they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.

He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.

with nuptial knot

ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed

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Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots .

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