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knotting, vbl. n.|ˈnɒtɪŋ|
[f. knot v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of tying a knot, or of tying or entangling in a knot.
1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 7 Exercising those who are received into the service, in knotting and splicing, in handing and reefing of sails. 1884S. St. John Hayti v. 196 The peculiar knotting of their curly wool. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxvii. 587 The affected hairs are bent and twisted and tend to produce matting and knotting.
2. The knitting of knots for fancy-work, similar to tatting n.; concr., fancy work done by knitting threads into knots.
1697[see 6 below]. 1712Addison Spect. No. 536 ⁋2 Knotting is again in fashion. 1750Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 616, I have sent you by Mr. Dubourg,..all the knotting and knotting thread I have. 1784Johnson in Boswell 3 June, Next to mere idleness, I think knotting is to be reckoned in the scale of insignificance; though I once attempted to learn knotting. 1801Monthly Rev. XXXV. 342 The young females of the Cape..are expert at..all kinds of lace, knotting, and tambour work. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 317 The whole fringe of the bed and window curtains being composed of her knotting. 1879K. S. Macquoid Berksh. Lady 123 Taking her knotting out of a black velvet reticule.
3. The formation of knots or protuberances; the production of buds, etc., budding.
1611Cotgr., Nouëment de jeunes arbres, the knotting of young trees; their springing, or shooting out from knot to knot. 1620Brinsley Virg. Ecl. 119/2 In the new flower (viz. at the first knotting). 1848B. Webb Continent. Ecclesiol. 116 It is like a finger deformed by the knotting of the knuckles.
4. The process of covering the knots in wood with a special preparation, previously to painting; concr., the preparation used for this.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 587 Knotting; in painting, the process for preventing knots from appearing in the finish. 1852Nicholson's Dict. Archit. s.v., Knotting is a composition of strong size, mixed with red lead. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1578 All the knots in the wood must be killed with knotting... Knotting is a preparation of red lead, litharge, boiled oil, and a little turpentine.
b. A preparation used as a cement or covering for metals.
5. The process of removing knots from cloth, pulp, etc.: see quots.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1240/2 Knotting{ddd}2. (Cloth⁓making.) Removing weft knots and others from cloth by means of tweezers. 1880E. J. Reed Japan II. 44 The processes of straining, knotting (the separation of knots, impurities, or of matted fibre which has formed into strings, or is insufficiently ground,) making [pulp into paper].
6. attrib. and Comb. (chiefly in sense 2).
1697in Doran Ann. Eng. Stage (1864) I. xii. 250 A black taffety cap, together with..a knotting needle, and a ball of sky-colour and white knotting. 1763Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 94 Lady Weymouth..and the Duchess of Ancaster sat knotting, with a knotting-bag hanging on their left arm. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor II. x. 26, I then..seated myself at the table, with my knotting-shuttle in my hand. |