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单词 of a knot
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of a knot
18. A small group, cluster, band or company of persons or things (gathered together in one place, or associated in any way). of a knot, in union or combination, associated together.
a. Of persons.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster
lumpc1380
clustera1400
knotc1400
community?1541
plump1553
clustering1576
clumpa1586
grove1667
skein1709
snuggle1901
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 787 Sant Iohan hem syȝ al in a knot, On þe hyl of Syon.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxvi All they came together in one knot to the citie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 118 So often shall the knot of vs be call'd, The Men that gaue their Country liberty. View more context for this quotation
1639 W. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 278 My Lord Sey and my Lord Brooke, and some of that knott.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 16 Dec. (1970) III. 284 All do conclude Mr. Coventry and Pett and me to be of a knot.
1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 297 It is usual for a Knot of Irish, Men and Women, to..grow visionary.., by Influence of..Tobacco.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 225 There was scarcely a market town in England without at least a knot of separatists.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §9. 557 Within the House..a vigorous knot of politicians was resolved to prolong its existence.
b. Of things.
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1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 165 The milken wary [sic] in the skie..is a meeting or knot of a number of small starres.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 6 We were close under St. Iago, another Island of the same Knot.
1825 W. Scott Talisman ii, in Tales Crusaders III. 25 They were now arrived at the knot of palm-trees.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (1858) ii. 84 You will have..not an institution, but a knot of clubs.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 263 A host of lesser knots of idioms.
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