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单词 run knot
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run knot
run knot n. chiefly Scottish (a) a slip knot, a running knot; cf. sense 15 and running adj. 7b; (b) a knot pulled so tight that it cannot be untied; also figurative. Sc. National Dict. (at rin) records this word as still in use in Shetland and the north-east and midlands of Scotland in 1968.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Rinnin knot Run knot, a slip-knot.
1837 G. P. R. James in M. Blessington Honey-moon II. 161 He only hesitated for a minute and a-half; and the good spirit unloosed the purse-strings, ere the bad spirit could get them into a run knot.
a1838 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. MSS (Adv. 22.1.10) X. 295 at Stane-knot Commonly called a run-knot in Fife; called a hard knot in E., from the difficulty of unloosing a notte of this description it is probably compared to the hardness of a stone.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie II. xi. 176 Hoots!.. Ye're aye warstlin' wi' run k-nots an' teuch moo'fu's.
1882 ‘S. Tytler’ Sc. Marriages I. iii. 60 And tie their strings in such desperate speed and confusion that they at once fell into ‘run knots’, which must be cut or torn asunder before she could be freed.
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