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gray⋅back

  [grey-bak]
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–noun
1. any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
2. Informal. a Confederate soldier.
Origin:
1805–15; gray 1 + back 1
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knot

2  [not]
–noun
either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Also called grayback.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME; orig. uncert.
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Word Origin & History

knot 
O.E. cnotta "intertwining of ropes, cords, etc.," from P.Gmc. *knuttan- (cf. Low Ger. knütte, Du. knot, O.H.G. knoto, Ger. Knoten, perhaps also O.N. knutr "knot, knob"). Fig. sense of "difficult problem" was in O.E. (cf. Gordian knot). Symbolic of the bond of wedlock, c.1225. As an ornament of dress, first attested 1400. Meaning "thickened part or protuberance on tissue of a plant" is from 1398. The nautical unit of measure (1633) is from the practice of attaching knotted string to the log line. The ship's speed can be measured by the number of knots that play out while the sand glass is running.
"The distance between the knots on the log-line should contain 1/120 of a mile, supposing the glass to run exactly half a minute." [Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, "A Voyage to South America" 1760]
The verb meaning "to tie in a knot" is from 1547. Knot-hole is from 1726. Knothead "stupid person" is from 1940.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: knot
Pronunciation: 'nät
Function: noun
1 : an interlacing of the parts of one or more flexible bodies (as threads or sutures) in alump to prevent their spontaneous separation —see SURGEON'S KNOT
2 : a usually firm or hardlump, swelling, or protuberance in or on a part of the body or a bone or process knot in a gland> knots> —compare SURFER'S KNOT —knot verb knot·ted; knot·ting
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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knot (nŏt)
n.

  1. A compact intersection of interlaced material, as of cord, ribbon, or rope.

  2. A protuberant growth or swelling in a tissue, such as a gland.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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