Hypertext Webster Gateway: "granny"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Granny \Gran"ny\, n.
A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
{Granny's bend}, or {Granny's knot} (Naut.), a kind of
insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
granny
n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: {grandma}, {grandmother},
{grannie}, {gran}]
2: an old woman [syn: {matriarch}]
3: a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure
[syn: {granny knot}]
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