Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In husbandry, the cutting away of the knots of trees.
- noun The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, solution, as of a difficulty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.
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- noun An
unknotting ; the act or operation of clearing of knots, or untying. - noun by extension The
solution of adifficulty .
Etymologies
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Latin enodatio explanation, from enodare to free from knots. See enode.
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The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.
October 29, 2008