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knotted, a.|ˈnɒtɪd|
[f. knot n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. a. Having a knot or knots tied on it; tied in a knot; fastened with a knot.
c1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137 Me did cnotted strenges abuton here hæued. a1225Leg. Kath. 1551 Het..beaten hire bare flesch & hire freoliche bodi mit cnottede schurgen. c1400Mandeville (1839) xviii. 197 He hath abouten his Nekke 300 perles oryent gode & grete, & knotted, as Pater Nostres here of Amber. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxii. (Percy Soc.) 156 In her hand she had a knotted whyp. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 15/1 The first is called the knotted suture or sowinge, because every stitche is cutt of, and both the endes of the thread knitte together. 1607Rowlands Guy Warw. 41 The Dragon winds his crooked knotted tail About the Lyon's legs. 1788Cowper Negro's Compl. 29 Ask him, if your knotted scourges,..Are the means that duty urges Agents of his will to use? 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 183 These knotted chains, as they are called, are now made by all the chain-makers.
b. fig. Knit together as with knots; formed like network; entangled, intricate.
1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. (1851) 576 No breach of any just privilege, but a breach of their knotted faction. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 18 They're catch'd in knotted law like nets. 1892M. Corelli Wormwood III. viii. 160 Little by little, I unravelled my knotted thoughts.
c. Colloq. phr. to get knotted, to ‘go to hell’. Usu. in imp., stop annoying me!
1963New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 Other adoptions are ‘get knotted’ and ‘knackered’ which have come to mean innocently enough, ‘go to hell’, and ‘kaput’. 1964B. W. Aldiss Dark Light Years iii. 39 Get knotted, Duffield, you ruddy trouble-maker. 1965M. Forster Bogeyman viii. 144 ‘You are to behave properly.’ ‘Get knotted,’ said Natalie, deliberately. 1968‘H. Calvin’ Miranda must Die ii. 19, I don't know why the hell you didn't tell him to get knotted and be done with it. 1969O. Blakeston For crying out Shroud v. 46 ‘That boy in Rome said we looked like a hero.’.. ‘Get knotted. We might as well be dead.’ 1972G. Lyall Blame the Dead xii. 80 ‘I'll lend you a good book about security.’ ‘Get knotted, Major.’
2. a. Formed or decorated with knots or bosses. b. Of a garden, laid out in knots (see knot n.1 7).
1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 249 The West corner of thy curious knotted garden. 1830N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 411 A double colonnade of clustered pillars..spanned above by a richly ribbed and knotted arch. 1863–9Dict. Archit., Knotted shaft, a peculiarity in the carving of the shafts of columns in the early part of the mediæval period in Italy, representing a knot; sometimes two shafts are knotted together. 1896Edin. Rev. July 169 The term ‘knots’ or ‘knotted garden’ came to be used for any grouping of flower beds of other than simple shape.
3. a. Characterized by knobs, protuberances, excrescences or concretions; gnarled, as a trunk or branch; having swollen joints, as a stem; gathered into wrinkles, knitted (as the brows): cf. knot n.1 13, 14; knot v. 3.
c1440Promp. Parv. 280/1 Knobbyd, or knottyd as trees, vertiginosus. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 50 The splitting winde Makes flexible the knees of knotted Oakes. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iii. i. M.'s Wks. (Rtldg.) 278/1 He has a knotted brow, would bruise A court-like hand to touch it. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 7 The Gray, or Horse-Fly. Her legs all joynted and knotted like the plant called Equisetum or Horse-tayl. 1701Sir H. C. Floyer Hot & Cold Bathing i. iv. 102 He was afflicted with the Gout..his Joints were so knotted, that he could scarcely go. 1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 49 Branches..Sometimes smooth and regular, sometimes knotted. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. vii, A formidable knotted club in his hand.
b. † Compacted, formed into a knot or compact close mass, as a bud (obs.); forming a close head of blossom (dial.).
1626Bacon Sylva §414 Pulling off the Buds of the Rose, when they are newly knotted, for then the side Branches will bear. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. i. 83 (E.D.S.) [Clover, when fit for mowing, is] known by its being full knotted. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 209 Knotted flowers of thyme. |
