knitverb/nɪt/

• 1

  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 knit a stocking
  • The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
• 2

  To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.

  • Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
• 3

  To join closely and firmly together.

  • The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
  • Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage,
• 4

  To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.

• 5

  To grow together.

  • All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
• 6

  To combine from various elements.

  • The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
• 7

  To heal following a fracture.

  • I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
• 8

  To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.

  • When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows,
  • [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]

knitnoun/nɪt/

• 1

  A knitted garment.

  • 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.
• 2

  A session of knitting.

  • It's always time for a bit of a knit.