knotted

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She noticed with a tender contraction of her heart that it was an old hand--knotted, with purple stains I should be a brute if I could be angry with you," she said; and the tenseness of her face relaxed to its old softness Ah, that's right, Nell--that's right.

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  1. Full of knots; having knots; knotty. The splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak., T. and C., i. 3,50. The many-knotted water-flags, That whistled dry and stiff about the marge. Tennyson, Passing of Arthur.
  2. Specifically — In botany, having a series of nodes, or nodelike swellings; jointed: said of stems, pods, etc.
  3. In zoology, having one or more swellings; nodose
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  • But they were well knotted, and she wasn't making much progress. —  Reality Check by Piers Anthony
  • The old tracks are there--knotted strings counting off a bunch of days I don't remember all that well. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
  • For the media, he was buttoned down, Windsor-knotted, and double-breasted. —  CriticalConditions
  • It was hand-knotted, in the half Windsor I'd picked up from Damien years ago. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • My stomach was tightly knotted, and my throat felt closed up. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
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