Reverse Dictionary: KNOT

ADJECTIVES
► KNURLY having knots or knurls; gnarled → 1602
► KNURNED knotted; rugged, gnarled → a1225 obs.
► KNURRED knotted; rugged, gnarled → c1430 obs.
► KNURRISH knotty, gnarled → 1530 obs.
► KNURRY knotty, gnarled → 1513 obs.
► MAZZARDLY ► MAZZARDY knotty; said of wood → 1871 Eng. dial.
► NATTLED knotted, tangled → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NURLY knotty, gnarled → 1806 Amer.
► SWIRLY knotty, gnarled → 1786
► TAZZLED knotted, tangled, fuzzy, twisted → 19C Eng. dial.
► TAZZY knotted, tangled, fuzzy → 19C Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BALD a ravelled knot → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► FELTER a knot, a tangle, a tangled mass → 1879 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HALSH a slip-knot, a noose, a loop → 1839 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HARL a knot, a tangle → a1697 Eng dial.
► HATCH a knot → 1688 obs.
► HATTER a knot or tangle; a jumble → 1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► KNUR ► KNURR a knot or hardened excrescence on the trunk of a tree → 1542
► KNURL ► NURL a knot, knob, nodule, etc. → 1608
► MONKEY’S FIST a knot tied on the end of a heaving line → 1975 US sl.
► NIRL a small knot or lump; a broken-off fragment, a morsel, a crumb, a small shrivelled-looking object → 1808 Sc. 
► TANGLEMENT a knot, a tangle → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWINE a knot, a tangle, a snarl → 1865

VERBS
► BALTER to form tangled knots or clots; to stick together by coagulation → 1601 obs.
► CADGE to knot, fasten, tie, or bind → a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FANK to knot, to twist, to coil a rope → 1660 Sc.
► FANKLE to knot, to twist, to entangle → 1887 Sc.
► HALCH to knot, to fasten, to tie → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HALSH to knot, to fasten, to tie; to noose, to loop, to twist → 1809 Eng. dial.
► HARL to knot together, to entangle, to twist → a1300 Eng. dial.
► HATTER to knot, to entangle; to mix or confuse things → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TATHER to knot; to entangle; to twist → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWIND to become knotted or entangled → 1575 obs.