- (v.t.) To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
- (n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
- (n.) An overgrown knot or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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