Cryptic crossword clue
Bird making speed over the waves 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word KNOT

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The straight part
We know that "Bird/speed over the waves" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bird/speed over the waves = knot.
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What does KNOT mean?

KNOT noun
  1. 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.
  2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
  3. A maze-like pattern.
  4. A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
  5. A difficult situation.
  6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
  7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
  8. A protuberant joint in a plant.
  9. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
  10. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
  11. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
  12. A node.
  13. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
  14. A group of people or things.
  15. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
  16. A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120 of a mile.)
  17. A nautical mile
  18. The bulbus glandis
  19. In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
KNOT verb
  1. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
  2. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
  3. To unite closely; to knit together.
  4. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
  5. To form knots.
  6. To knit knots for a fringe.
KNOT noun
  1. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

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