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Tringa canutus
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
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Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
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Tringa canutus
(gcide) | Knot \Knot\ (n[o^]t), n. [OE. knot, knotte, AS. cnotta; akin to
D. knot, OHG. chnodo, chnoto, G. knoten, Icel. kn[=u]tr, Sw.
knut, Dan. knude, and perh. to L. nodus. Cf. Knout,
Knit.]
1.
(a) A fastening together of the parts or ends of one or
more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of
various ways of tying or entangling.
(b) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc.,
as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon
itself.
(c) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.
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Note: The names of knots vary according to the manner of
their making, or the use for which they are intended;
as, dowknot, reef knot, stopper knot, diamond knot,
etc.
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2. A bond of union; a connection; a tie. "With nuptial knot."
--Shak.
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Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed. --Bp.
Hall.
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3. Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a
perplexity; a problem.
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Knots worthy of solution. --Cowper.
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A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of
business, and contrary affairs. --South.
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4. A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately
interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. "Garden
knots." --Bacon.
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Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art
In beds and curious knots, but nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
--Milton.
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5. A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a
hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians. "Knots of
talk." --Tennyson.
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His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. --Shak.
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Palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. --Tennyson.
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As they sat together in small, separate knots, they
discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of
belief. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody
fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock
and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is
generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered
by later woody growth.
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7. A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
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With lips serenely placid, felt the knot
Climb in her throat. --Tennyson.
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8. A protuberant joint in a plant.
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9. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist
of a matter. [Obs.]
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I shoulde to the knotte condescend,
And maken of her walking soon an end. --Chaucer.
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10. (Mech.) See Node.
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11. (Naut.)
(a) A division of the log line, serving to measure the
rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line
bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty
seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run
off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows
the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
Hence:
(b) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship
goes nautical eight miles an hour, her speed is said
to be eight knots.
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12. A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
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13. (Zool.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the
northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is
grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail
coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are
pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white.
When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.
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Note: The name is said to be derived from King Canute, this
bird being a favorite article of food with him.
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The knot that called was Canutus' bird of old,
Of that great king of Danes his name that still
doth hold,
His appetite to please that far and near was
sought. --Drayton.
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