knotted

Etymology

From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.

adj

1. Full of knots; knotty.
   These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily. 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99
2. Tied in knots.
3. Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
4. Having the shape or form of a knot.
   Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296

verb

1. simple past and past participle of knot
   He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
   Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.