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S: (n) knot (a tight cluster of people or things) "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
S: (n) knot (any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object)
S: (n) knot (a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged) "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
S: (n) knot ((of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour)

S: (n) knot, gnarl (something twisted and tight and swollen) "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"

S: (n) slub, knot, burl (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)
S: (n) knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)

S: (n) sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

S: (n) European sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos (a variety of sandpiper)
S: (n) spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularia (common North American sandpiper)
S: (n) least sandpiper, stint, Erolia minutilla (smallest American sandpiper)
S: (n) red-backed sandpiper, dunlin, Erolia alpina (small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions)
S: (n) greenshank, Tringa nebularia (large European sandpiper with greenish legs)
S: (n) redshank, Tringa totanus (a common Old World wading bird with long red legs)
S: (n) yellowlegs (either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs)
S: (n) pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe, Calidris melanotos (American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting)
S: (n) knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)
S: (n) curlew sandpiper, Calidris Ferruginea (Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew)
S: (n) sanderling, Crocethia alba (small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world)
S: (n) upland sandpiper, upland plover, Bartramian sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda (large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands)
S: (n) ruff, Philomachus pugnax (common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season)
S: (n) tattler (any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry)

S: (v) knot (make into knots; make knots out of) "She knotted her fingers"