Definition of "knotter" []

• A fine strainer used to clear paper-pulp from clots or knots as it passes to the paper-making machine. (noun)
• In textile-manuf, a hand-device for mechanically tying together two ends of yarn or thread. (noun)
• The mechanism in a harvester and binder which ties the knots in the binding-cord. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The knotter is the same thing that Cyrus McCormick put on the oldtime reaper."
• "The "knotter" tying device had to be moved frequently to keep the binder twine around the middle of the sheaf according to the length of the straw."
• "Some folks allowed as how that made Ben as true a Maker as ever lived, but no, said Taleswapper, that made Ben, a binder, a knotter, but not a Maker."