Knotter

Quick meaning: Knotter is a noun meaning A person who makes knots.

Meaning

A person who makes knots.

More Meanings

1. A machine or device that makes knots.
2. (pulp and paper) A screen used to remove “knots” or impurities from wood pulp in the process of making paper.
3. (nautical, in compounds) A vessel capable of reaching a specified speed in knots.
4. (nautical, in compounds) A wind blowing at a specified velocity in knots.

Example Sentences

This was Jai, the expert lace-knotter […]

Their engines being “simple,” they consumed a perfectly ruinous amount of coal, sixty-four tons for the round trip; considerably more than the coal consumption of the present twenty-four knotters.

[…] the pulp is strained by means of a sieve or “knotter” as it is called, which is usually formed of brass, having fine slits cut in it to allow the comminuted pulp to pass through, while it retains all lumps and knots […]

1963, Ontario Water Resources Commission, Water Resources Survey, District of Sudbury, Part 2, A Survey of Industrial Water Use and Waste Disposal, p. 119, Following cooking, the cooked mixture is vented to a blow tank and from here pumped to a knotter for the removal of knots.

Word Forms

• knotters

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knitter, knitaholic, kneader, notcher, tangler, nettler.

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