单词 | to make, knit, or tie a knot |
释义 | > as lemmasto make, †knit, or tie a knot (in) a. An intertwining or complication of the parts of one or more ropes, cords, or strips of anything flexible enough, made for the purpose of fastening them together or to another object, or to prevent slipping, and secured by being drawn tight; a tie in a rope, necktie, etc.; also, a tangle accidentally drawn tight. to make, †knit, or tie a knot (in), to knot a piece of string or a handkerchief, esp. as a reminder. Also in allusions to the knot in a halter for hanging. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot knotc1000 knottle?a1500 halsh1664 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 28 He afunde..þa snode mid eallum cnottum swa fæste gewriðen swa heo ær wæs. c1290 Beket 1445 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 148 Þe knottes gnowen al is flechs: a-boute bi eche side. 14.. Chaucer's Sqr.'s T. 663 (Lansd.) Bot I wil here nowe maake a knotte To þe time it come next to my lotte. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 166 That he make a knot on his girdil. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 3 The bonde of euerywhiche faggotte to conteine three quarters of a yarde at the leaste, besyde the knotte. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 147 This is Mounsieur Parrolles the gallant militarist,..that had the whole theoricke of warre in the knot of his scarfe. View more context for this quotation 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 322 One knot in a thread will stay the Needle's Passage, as wel as five hundred. 1647 A. Cowley Tree in Mistress v Go tye the dismal Knot (why shouldst thou live?). 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xiv. 200 He tied sixty knots in a leathern thong, and bade them unfasten one every day, till the prescribed interval had expired. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §39 Such mesh [in a net] shall not be less than one and a half inch from knot to knot. < as lemmas |
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