knot together

Related to knot together: knit together

knot together

1. To join two or more long, pliable things together with a series of knots. A noun or pronoun can be used between "knot" and "together." The escaped convict had knotted together several bedsheets and used it to scale down the prison wall. Let's just knot these strings together to make one long piece.
2. To tangle into a knot. I hate the way my hair knots together like this.
3. To tangle two or more things into a knot. A noun or pronoun can be used between "knot" and "together." Don't just shove the various cables into the box like that, or you'll end up knotting them together!
4. By extension, to connect two or more things inseparably together. Often used in passive constructions. The influence your environment has on your psychological development has always been firmly knotted together with your inherent genetic makeup. The state and federal governments are so knotted together that it would be nearly impossible to remove one from the other.
See also: knot, together
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

knot something together

to tie something together in a knot. Knot these strings together and trim the strings off the knot. Are the ropes knotted together properly? Quickly knot together the two loose ends!
See also: knot, together
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • splice together
  • draw people or things together
  • draw together
  • crash together
  • keep together
  • cement together
  • lash together
  • knit together
  • piece together
  • string together
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The girls help rig each balloon with long hemp ropes that knot together to form a basket from which they hang an aluminum ring with built-in altitude sensors, a circle skirt of sandbags for ballast, and an automatic release for four incendiary canisters and a single dangling anti-personnel bomb, cradled like an egg in an eagle's claw.
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But the sisters, of West Denton, Newcastle, who tied the knot together, could not let their happy day go by without their daily fix of all the news from home.
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What Thiel cuts apart he must be sure to knot together again; the paper must remain materially intact.
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Step 5: When you come to the end of your length of thread, just knot together another length and keep on going.
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Certain works of art make their mark in history by breaking the thread of a tradition; others, perhaps more rare, endure because they are able to knot together numerous threads.
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