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) wading bird, wader (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)
S: (n) aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)
S: (n) bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
S: (n) vertebrate, craniate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
S: (n) chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)
S: (v) mint, coin, strike (form by stamping, punching, or printing) "strike coins"; "strike a medal"
S: (v) spin (form a web by making a thread) "spiders spin a fine web"
S: (v) make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents) "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
S: (v) shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge (make something, usually for a specific function) "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
S: (v) dip (place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax)
S: (v) bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven) "bake a cake"
S: (v) brew (prepare by brewing) "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"
S: (v) cook, fix, ready, make, prepare (prepare for eating by applying heat) "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
S: (v) cook (prepare a hot meal) "My husband doesn't cook"