- Knot in wood - To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose
threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. - A knot or lump in thread or cloth. - An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer
made from such excrescences.
- back third caller to complain - knot - Knot in a tree - Knot in a wood - Knotty protuberance on a tree - Snarl when Gilbert changes place with Sullivan in tree swelling - To growl; to snarl.