Meanings (ES + gloss)
nudo • ñudo
A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it…
nudo
A tangled clump of hair or similar.
The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
nudo
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
nudo
A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
Phrases
Albright knotAshley's stopper knotBachmann knotBantu knotCeltic knotClytie knotConway knotEnglish knotEnglishman's knotEuro death-knotFintushel-Stern knotFrench knotGhiordes knotGordian knotGrecian knotKCASKEASKIASKTASLissajous knotNubian knotPhiladelphia knotPratt knotPsyche knotShelby knotSolomon's knotStafford knotSuebian knotSuevian knotTurkish knotWindsor knotalpine butterfly knotalternating knotangler's knotarbor knotbag knotballoon knotbarrel knotbeer knotbinding knot
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
correlimos • playero
One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
anudar • añudar
To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
For many weeks about my loins I wore / The rope that haled the buckets from the well, / Twisted as tight as I could knot the noose, / And spake not of it to a single soul, / And sp…
We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
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