knotty

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knotty englannista suomeksi

Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)|footer=In the First Quarto (1603) of the work, the corresponding phrase is “Thy knotted and combined locks to part”.
(RQ:Herbert Travaile)
Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.

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(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(RQ:Swift Tale of a Tub)
(RQ:Pope Works)
(quote-web)
Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
(RQ:Ascham Scholemaster) ſuch a witte I ſay, if it be, at the firſt well handled by the mother, and rightlie ſmothed and wrought as it ſhould, not ouerwhartlie, and against the wood, by the ſcholemaſter, both for learning, and hole courſe of liuing, proueth alwaies the beſt.
(RQ:Milton Divorce) I may erre perhaps in ſoothing my ſelfe that this preſent truth reviv'd, vvill deſerve on all hands to be not ſiniſterly receiv'd, (..) but vvith a ſmooth and pleaſing leſſon, vvhich receiv'd hath the vertue to ſoften and diſpell rooted and knotty ſorrovves: (..)
knotted, tied, linked
(l), tangled, twisted
knobby, bumpy, clumped
knoblike, protruding