knit

verb

1. (ambitransitive)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.”

   “I knitted swatches in a cable pattern to see how the different hapazome tachniques and yarn weights affected the appearance of the cables.”

2. (ambitransitive)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. (figuratively, transitive)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,”

   “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.”

   “Come, knit hands, and beate the ground In a light fantastick round.”

   “Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.”

4. (intransitive)To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
5. (intransitive)To grow together.

   “All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.”

6. (transitive)To combine from various elements.

   “The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.”

7. (intransitive)To heal following a fracture.

   “I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.”

8. (transitive)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 […]”

9. (transitive)To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

   “But meet him now, and be it in the Morne, / When euery one will giue the time of day, / He knits his Brow and ſhewes an angry Eye, / And paſſeth by with ſtiffe vnbowed Knee, / Diſdaining dutie that to vs belongs.”

noun

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.”