a type of bend knot used to join the ends of laid ropes, by separating the strands and knotting them together individually. Commonly used to join a snapped shroud rope.

(UK) a hitch knot used to tension ropes, often for the purpose of securing loads for transport.

plural of knot span

A type of ribbon attached to the hilt of a sword, originally as a way of fastening it to the wrist, but later chiefly as an ornament.

A three-looped knot, the traditional symbol of the English county of Staffordshire and its county town, Stafford.

A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.

(medicine) A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.

A knot or bow, as of ribbon.

A historical male hairstyle ascribed to the tribe of the Germanic Suebi.

A species of brown algae, Ascophyllum nodosum; a common seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean.