01 a. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
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2.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.]
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3.
Difficult; intricate; perplexed.“A knotty point to which we now proceed” — Pope.