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  • granny knot

    a reef knot with the ends crossed the wrong way, making it liable to slip or jam

  • loop knot

    a knot made by doubling over a line at its end and tying both thicknesses into a square knot in such a way as to leave a loop.

  • truelove knot

    a complicated ornamental knot, especially a double knot having two interlacing bows, regarded as an emblem of true love or interwoven affections.

  • ghiordes knot

    a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.

  • gordian

    pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
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