A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
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Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
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The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
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1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310: