knotful
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4ADJ.
bewildered, loose, proud
VERB + KNOTFUL
befooled, besotted, call, is't
KNOTFUL + NOUN
butterflies, knittings, tendons, wood
PREP.
than
Definitions
adj
Full of knots; knotty.
Clear your coil of kinkings Into perfect plaiting, Locking loops and linkings Interpenetrating. Why should a man benighted, beduped, befooled, besotted, Call knotful knittings plighted, Not knotty but beknotted?
Is't more knotful or bewildered than the skein o'life itself, that a good tale tangles the better to unsnarl?
noun
A quantity that makes up a knot.
The lice had eaten their way through her rotting flesh, leaving a skeleton double-row of teeth, and of a once proud neck, a knotful of tendons and veins.
Al was a knotful of butterflies by the time his music struck up and he had forced himself to dance out on to the stage apron.
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5Clear your coil of kinkings Into perfect plaiting, Locking loops and linkings Interpenetrating. Why should a man benighted, beduped, befooled, besotted, Call knotful knittings plighted, Not knotty but
WiktionaryIs't more knotful or bewildered than the skein o'life itself, that a good tale tangles the better to unsnarl?
WiktionaryThe lice had eaten their way through her rotting flesh, leaving a skeleton double-row of teeth, and of a once proud neck, a knotful of tendons and veins.
WiktionaryAl was a knotful of butterflies by the time his music struck up and he had forced himself to dance out on to the stage apron.
WiktionaryThe leather went whistling through TJ's hands, leaving thin, twin bands of neatly polished skin, until the branch tore loose and a knotful of splintered wood jammed there, bloodying both his palms.
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