Synonyms for knot

noun

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
• something twisted and tight and swollen
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
• a tight cluster of people or things
• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

verb

• tangle or complicate
• make into knots; make knots out of
• tie or fasten into a knot