Found 6 hits - Term: knitting, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
knit \knit\ ni^t, v. t. imp. p. p. knit or knitted;
p. pr. vb. n. knitting. oe. knitten, knutten, as.
cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to icel. kn=yta, sw. knyta,
dan. knytte. see knot.
1. to form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as
cord; to fasten by tying.
1913 webster
a great sheet knit at the four corners. --acts x.
11.
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when your head did but ache,
i knit my handkercher about your brows. --shak.
1913 webster
2. to form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn
or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of
needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit
stockings.
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3. to join; to cause to grow together.
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nature can not knit the bones while the parts are
under a discharge. --wiseman.
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4. to unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit
together in love.
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thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. --shak.
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come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
in a light fantastic round. --milton
comus.
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a link among the days, toknit
the generations each to each. --tennyson.
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5. to draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
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he knits his brow and shows an angry eye. --shak.
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see also:
knit knitted knitting knot
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
knitting \knit"ting\, n.
1. the work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting;
knitwork.
1913 webster
2. union formed by knitting, as of bones.
1913 webster
knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for
mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
knitting needle, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with
rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric,
as in stockings.
knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in
knitting.
1913 webster
see also:
knitting machine knitting needle knitting sheath
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
knit
n 1: a fabric made by knitting syn: knitted fabric
2: a basic knitting stitch syn: knit stitch, plain, plain
stitch
3: needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of
connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by
machine syn: knitting, knitwork
v 1: make textiles by knitting; "knit a scarf"
2: tie or link together syn: entwine
3: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "she
puckered her lips" syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple
also: knitting, knitted
see also:
knitted fabric knit stitch plain plain stitch knitting knitwork
entwine pucker rumple cockle crumple
knitted
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
knitting
n 1: needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of
connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by
machine syn: knit, knitwork
2: creating knitted wear
see also:
knit knitwork
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
knitting
see knit
see also:
knit
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 moby thesaurus words for "knitting":
abbreviation, applique, astriction, astringency, basting, binding,
bottleneck, braiding, buttonholing, cervix, circumscription,
coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure,
concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction,
constringency, contraction, contracture, crochet, curtailment,
decrease, diminuendo, embroidery, enlacement, entwinement,
entwining, fabric, hourglass, hourglass figure, interknitting,
interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture,
interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining,
intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, isthmus, lacing,
macrame, narrow place, narrowing, neck, needlepoint, netting,
petit point, plaiting, puckering, pursing, quilting, reduction,
ribbing, shortening, solidification, stranglement, strangulation,
striction, stricture, systole, tatting, texture, tissue, twining,
twisting, warp and woof, warpage, wasp waist, weave, weaving, web,
weftage, wreathing, wrinkling
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