seam vs wall knot

seam

noun
  • A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. 

  • The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam. 

  • A line of junction; a joint. 

  • A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. 

  • An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. 

  • A suture. 

  • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. 

  • A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials. 

  • An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds. 

verb
  • Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus. 

  • To mark with a seam or line; to scar. 

  • To put together with a seam. 

  • To crack open along a seam. 

  • Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam. 

  • To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. 

wall knot

noun
  • A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first. 

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