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English Dictionary: knotted by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
knotted
adj
  1. tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
  2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
    Synonym(s): gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Knotted \Knot"ted\, a.
      1. Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord;
            the knotted oak. --Dryden.
  
      2. Interwoven; matted; entangled.
  
                     Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Having intersecting lines or figures.
  
                     The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      4. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly
            composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the
            rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered
            surface; as, knotted rocks. --Percival.
  
      5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.]
  
                     They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Knot \Knot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Knotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Knotting}.]
      1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form
            a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. [bd]Knotted curls.[b8]
            --Drayton.
  
                     As tight as I could knot the noose.   --Tennyson.
  
      2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon.
  
      3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
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