Contionary:knott

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Niemish

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *knuttô.

{{nm-noun-f0h|knòtt|knot

  1. (botany) bud
  2. (anatomy) navel
  3. (botany) A leaf node.
  4. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions
  5. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane
  6. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint