knit (n t)v. knit or knit·ted, knit·ting, knits v.tr.1. To make (a fabric or garment) by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops either by hand, with knitting needles, or on a machine. 2. To form (yarn or thread) into fabric by intertwining. 3. To join closely; unite securely. 4. To draw (the brows) together in wrinkles; furrow. v.intr.1. To make a fabric or garment by knitting. 2. To become securely joined or mended together closely, as a fractured bone. 3. To come together in wrinkles or furrows, as the brows. n.1. A fabric or garment made by knitting. 2. The way in which a fabric has been knit: a loose knit.
[Middle English knitten, to tie in a knot, from Old English cnyttan.]
knit ter n. |
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| Then, when she's all matched, she knits for me, and that's how she made my mittens. it was very early for her to know one of those supreme moments in life when all we have hoped or delighted in, all we can dread or endure, falls away from our regard as insignificant; is lost, like a trivial memory, in that simple, primitive love which knits us to the beings who have been nearest to us, in their times of helplessness or of anguish. They went to the opera often of evenings--to those snug, unassuming, dear old operas in the German towns, where the noblesse sits and cries, and knits stockings on the one side, over against the bourgeoisie on the other; and His Transparency the Duke and his Transparent family, all very fat and good-natured, come and occupy the great box in the middle; and the pit is full of the most elegant slim-waisted officers with straw-coloured mustachios, and twopence a day on full pay. |