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knit
English
Etymology
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-Germanic *knutjan?, *knuttijan? (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta) and Northern German knütten. More at knot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophone: nit
Verb
knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
- to knit a stocking
- The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 26,[1]
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
- To thee I send this written embassage,
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 18:1,[2]
- And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
- 1637, John Milton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 6,[3]
- Come, knit hands, and beate the ground
- In a light fantastick round.
- 1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds, London: Richard Royston,[4]
- Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
- 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, Canto 39, p. 60,[5]
- Her office there to rear, to teach,
- Becoming as is meet and fit
- A link among the days, to knit
- The generations each with each;
- (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- (intransitive) To grow together.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- (transitive) To combine from various elements.
- The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
- (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,[6]
- When your head did but ache,
- I knit my handkercher about your brows,
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Book of Acts 10:11,[7]
- [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,[6]
- (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
- He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- tricot
- weave
Noun
knit (plural knits)
- A knitted garment.
- A session of knitting.
References
- Knitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tink
knit From the web:
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tricoteuse
English
Etymology
From French tricoteuse.
Noun
tricoteuse (plural tricoteuses)
- A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.
French
Etymology
From tricoter +? -euse.
Noun
tricoteuse f (plural tricoteuses)
- female equivalent of tricoteur
Further reading
- “tricoteuse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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