Definition of "knit"

knit

/ˈnɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted
1. (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.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
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  Lord of my love, to whom in vassalageThy merit hath my duty strongly knit,To thee I send this written embassage,
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  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.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 18:1
  Come, knit hands, and beate the groundIn a light fantastick round.
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, page 6
  Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
  1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds‎, London: Richard Royston
  Her office there to rear, to teach,Becoming as is meet and fitA link among the days, to knitThe generations each with each;
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto 39, page 60
3. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
4. (intransitive) To grow together.
5. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
6. (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
7. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  Quotations
  When your head did but ache,I knit my handkercher about your brows,
  c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
  [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 10:11
8. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
  Quotations
  He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
noun
plural knits
1. A knitted garment.
  Quotations
  There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.
  2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105
2. A session of knitting.
  Quotations
  It's always time for a bit of a knit.
  2014, Elvira Woodruff, To Knit or Not to Knit

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