“Hughes lowered the rope, and Ned chopped away part of the knotty net holding the crate.”
“The 31-room lodge sits right on Lake Superior and is all Scandinavian, with hand-hewn beams, massive stone fireplaces, and guest rooms of high-gloss knotty pine.”
“The narrator's knotty and convoluted syntax wryly suggests the slightly confused tenor of Poupin's thought.”