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Definition of Knottings
1. knotting [n] - See also: knotting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knottings
Literary usage of Knottings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science, with a Special Lecture by Peter Guthrie Tait (1885)
"... endless —after any number whatever of knottings or twistings, the ends must
come together; or else the ends must be in the free surface of the medium. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"Of this, evidence was found in rickety knottings of the bones, and other symptoms
of rickets ; as a rule, there had also been an amount of labour beyond the ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"A fresh series of knottings is then made, and the previous operations are repeated.
In another closely allied process for making; carpets and hangings, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"There is one with a figure in full chain- armour, and others, again, of an older
date, are ornamented with the geometric knottings and reticulations which ..."
5. Oriental Rugs by John Kimberly Mumford (1902)
"In all these knottings two strands of yarn are frequently used, thus doubling
the thickness of the pile. The loosest knotting in distinctly modern Eastern ..."
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