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King-Post
- - A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post.
Kingcraft
- - The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy.
Kippernut
- - A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.
Kitty-Cat
- noun - informal terms referring to a domestic cat
Kiwifruit
- unknown - Soft eating fruit. Originally called Chinese Gooseberry.
Knock Out
- verb - destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"
- eliminate; "knock out a target"
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out; "knocked out a pipe"
- knock unconscious or senseless; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds"
- overwhelm with admiration; "All the guys were knocked out by her charm"
Knock-Out
- - That knocks out; characterized by knocking out; as, a knock-out blow; a knock-out key for knocking out a drill from a collet.
Knottiest
- adjective - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"