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knotted pile

knotted pile noun: in carpet-making, a kind of pile made from the cut-off ends of knots woven between the warp and weft.

Noun

knotted pile (plural knotted piles)

  1. (attributive) In carpet-making, a kind of pile made from the cut-off ends of knots woven between the warp and weft.

Forms of knotted pile

pluralknotted piles

Questions about knotted pile

What does knotted pile mean?
Knotted pile means in carpet-making, a kind of pile made from the cut-off ends of knots woven between the warp and weft.
What part of speech is knotted pile?
Knotted pile is a noun.
What is the plural of knotted pile?
The plural of knotted pile is knotted piles.

Words near knotted pile in the dictionary

  1. knottable
  2. knottage
  3. knottages
  4. knotted
  5. knotted off
  6. knotted pile
  7. knotted piles
  8. knotted wrack
  9. knotted wracks
  10. knottedness
  11. knotter

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