knottedadj.

c1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 Me did cnotted strenges abuton here hæued.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 1551 Het..beaten hire bare flesch & hire freoliche bodi mit cnottede schurgen.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xviii. 197 He hath abouten his Nekke 300 perles oryent gode & grete, & knotted, as Pater Nostres here of Amber.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxii. 156 In her hand she had a knotted whyp.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 15/1 The first is called the knotted suture or sowinge, because every stitche is cutt of, and both the endes of the thread knitte together.

1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 41 The Dragon winds his crooked knotted tail About the Lyon's legs.

1788 W. Cowper Negro's Compl. 29 Ask him, if your knotted scourges,..Are the means that duty urges Agents of his will to use?

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 183 These knotted chains, as they are called, are now made by all the chain-makers.

1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 61 No breach of any just privilege, but a breach of their knotted faction.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 133 Th'are catch'd in knotted Law, like Nets.

1892 ‘M. Corelli’ Wormwood III. viii. 160 Little by little, I unravelled my knotted thoughts.

1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 Other adoptions are ‘get knotted’ and ‘knackered’ which have come to mean innocently enough, ‘go to hell’, and ‘kaput’.

1964 B. W. Aldiss Dark Light Years iii. 39 Get knotted, Duffield, you ruddy trouble-maker.

1965 M. Forster Bogeyman viii. 144 ‘You are to behave properly.’ ‘Get knotted,’ said Natalie, deliberately.

1968 ‘H. Calvin’ Miranda must Die ii. 19 I don't know why the hell you didn't tell him to get knotted and be done with it.

1969 O. Blakeston For crying out Shroud v. 46 ‘That boy in Rome said we looked like a hero.’.. ‘Get knotted. We might as well be dead.’

1972 G. Lyall Blame the Dead xii. 80 ‘I'll lend you a good book about security.’ ‘Get knotted, Major.’

1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 411 A double colonnade of clustered pillars..spanned above by a richly ribbed and knotted arch.

1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Knotted shaft, a peculiarity in the carving of the shafts of columns in the early part of the mediæval period in Italy, representing a knot; sometimes two shafts are knotted together.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 241 The West corner of thy curious knotted garden. View more context for this quotation

1896 Edinb. Rev. July 169 The term ‘knots’ or ‘knotted garden’ came to be used for any grouping of flower beds of other than simple shape.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280/1 Knobbyd, or knottyd as trees, vertiginosus.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 49 The splitting winde, Makes flexible the knees of knotted Okes. View more context for this quotation

1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. G2^v He has a knotted brow, would bruise A court like hand to touch it.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 7 The Gray, or Horse-Fly. Her legs all joynted and knotted like the plant called Equisetum or Horse-tayl.

1701 J. B. Let. 4 Mar. in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσία Revived (1702) iv. 121 He was afflicted with the Gout..his Joints were so knotted, that he could scarcely go.

1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 49 Branches..Sometimes smooth and regular, sometimes knotted.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vii. 118 A formidable knotted club in his hand.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §414 Pulling off the Buds of the Rose, when they are newly knotted, for then the side Branches will bear.

1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May v. 83 [Clover, when fit for mowing, is] known by its being full knotted.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 209 Knotted flowers of thyme.

1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) 127 Knotenschiefer (Knotted schist) contains little knots of concretions of a dark-green or brown..substance, of a talcose or micaceous nature, imbedded in a finely-laminated matrix of a talc-like or mica-like material.

1920 A. Holmes Nomencl. Petrol. Knotted Schist or Knotenschiefer.—See Spotted Slates.