KNOTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knotted mean? 

• KNOTTED (adjective)
  The adjective KNOTTED has 2 senses:

1. tied with a knot

2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

  Familiarity information: KNOTTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tied with a knot

Context example:

his carefully knotted necktie

Similar:

fastened; tied (fastened with strings or cords)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

Synonyms:

gnarled; gnarly; knobbed; knotted; knotty

Context example:

a knobbed stick

Similar:

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

 Context examples 

And such a tangle—halyards, sheets, guys, down-hauls, shrouds, stays, all washed about and back and forth and through, and twined and knotted by the sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So gaunt were these poor folk, so worn and spent—with bent and knotted frames, and sullen, hopeless, mutinous faces—that it made the young Englishman heart-sick to look upon them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sterndale’s fierce face turned to a dusky red, his eyes glared, and the knotted, passionate veins started out in his forehead, while he sprang forward with clenched hands towards my companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was none of that white sleek skin and shimmering play of sinew which made Wilson a beautiful picture, but in its stead there was a rugged grandeur of knotted and tangled muscle, as though the roots of some old tree were writhing from breast to shoulder, and from shoulder to elbow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He worked the sack of gold out between the lashings and carried it to the water- hole. Already a new skin of ice had formed. This he broke with his fist. Untying the knotted mouth with his teeth, he emptied the contents of the sack into the water.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy’s largest men of war after me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On the other side, with his knotted hand upon the young man's shoulder, came a stout and burly archer, brown and fierce eyed, with sword at belt and long yellow yew-stave peeping over his shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I left him smoking hard, with his heavy, dark brows knotted together, and his long, nervous fingers tapping upon the arms of his chair, as he turned over in his mind every possible solution of the mystery.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)