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Knit   /nɪt/   Listen
Knit

verb
(past & past part. knit or knitted; pres. part. knitting)
1.
Make (textiles) by knitting.
2.
Tie or link together.  Synonym: entwine.
3.
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.  Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple.
noun
1.
A fabric made by knitting.
2.
A basic knitting stitch.  Synonyms: knit stitch, plain, plain stitch.
3.
Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine.  Synonyms: knitting, knitwork.



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"Knit" Quotes from Famous Books



... notice. Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... minutes passed. The shift brought out by the busses was going through the check-over process in the incoming screen room. Joe knew that Major Holt had, within the past five minutes, gathered together a tight-knit bunch of armed security men to be available for anything that might turn up. The men doing the normal shift-change screening were shorthanded ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... of frenzy, he burst out again—Why was she going away? Why did she want to break with him? Surely their destinies were indissolubly knit together now? He could not live without her—without her eyes, her voice, the constant thought of her. He was saturated through and through with love of her—his whole blood was on fire as with some deadly poison. ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio
... on my primeval seclusion. Looking out from the bushes, I saw her trotting towards an open space of lawn the other side the pond, chattering to herself in her accustomed fashion, a doll tucked under either arm, and her brow knit with care. Propping up her double burden against a friendly stump, she sat down in front of them, as full of worry and anxiety as a Chancellor on ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... be sure of the unalterable continuance of all his proper good. Outward things may come or go, as it pleases Him, but that which makes the life of our life will never depart from us as long as He stands there. And whilst He is there, if only our hearts are knit to Him, we can say, 'My heart and my flesh faileth, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. I shall not be moved. Though all that can go goes, He abides; and in Him I have all riches.' Trust not in the uncertainty of outward good, but in the living God, who giveth us ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren


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