knit

Meanings

Verb

  • 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 join closely and firmly together.
  • To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  • To grow together.
  • To combine from various elements.
  • To heal following a fracture.
  • To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  • To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

Noun

  • A knitted garment.
  • A session of knitting.

Origin

  • From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan ("to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append"), from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną. Cognate with Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta) and Northern German knütten. More at knot.

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