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misknotting

misknotting is the present participle and gerund of misknot.

Meaning of misknot

Verb

misknot (third-person singular simple present misknots, present participle misknotting, simple past and past participle misknotted)

  1. To tie a knot incorrectly.
    • He knew about Kidd. Kidd the Jay Hawker, Kidd the bounty hunter, Kidd the man who deliberately misknotted a hangman's noose so that the poor devil on the end of it kicked until he choked to death.1976, Jake Logan, North to Dakota, page 25

Questions about misknotting

What is misknotting the present participle and gerund of?
Misknotting is the present participle and gerund of misknot.

Words near misknotting in the dictionary

  1. misknitted
  2. misknitting
  3. misknot
  4. misknots
  5. misknotted
  6. misknotting
  7. misknow
  8. misknowing
  9. misknowledge
  10. misknowledges
  11. misknown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misknotting (page history and authors); misknot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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