Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knot with large decorative loops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slip-knot made by drawing a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., in the form of a bow through an involution, which is then tightened round the bow. The knot is simple if there is only one bow, double if there are two; it can be easily untied by drawing the bow back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
knot that has twoloops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tieshoelaces .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
Etymologies
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Examples
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The men call it a "bowknot" of river; so we name it Bowknot
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I had refastened it in a simple bowknot, a sort of knot which on Gor, in certain contexts, as in the present context, is spoken of as a slave knot.
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_When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
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She put them down on the glass-topped table, sat, and pulled the end of a bowknot MURDER BY THE BOOK 97
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Thereupon the second member of the team runs, unties the bowknot, returns with the string; and hands it to the third, who runs forward, and ties it in a bowknot, as did the first, and returning touches off the fourth, etc. The aisle in which each pupil has accomplished the required task first, wins the race.
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At a signal to start each pupil with the string runs forward and ties it in a bowknot on some article placed in front of each aisle.
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She was too cheerful and hopeful to really care because she couldn't entwine the two initials of the only name she knew into an artistic bowknot!
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Today he was so absorbed that he had almost twisted the offending lock into a double bowknot and he heeded the children no more than flies.
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Courtship is a bowknot that matrimony pulls into a hard knot.
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Then this bird drops twice the amount on the coffee table, strides over to the corner, picks up the lamp, and ties the iron pipe into a fancy-looking bowknot.
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