Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of producing something knitted.
- noun Material that has been knitted or is being knitted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of tying or fastening in a knot, or of winding about and about; entanglement.
- noun The act of weaving by looping or knotting a continuous thread.
- noun Work done by a knitter; knitting-work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.
- noun Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
- noun one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
- noun a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings.
- noun a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
knit . - noun The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing
knitted material . - noun
Material that has been, or is being knitted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun creating knitted wear
- noun needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
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Examples
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I don't know how I'm going to bear it -- to lie here on my couch, knitting -- _knitting!
The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler
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Unpicking plain knitting is dead easy, of course, but the k2togs and (worse) the k3togs tend to stick together.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009
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Unpicking plain knitting is dead easy, of course, but the k2togs and (worse) the k3togs tend to stick together.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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The introduction talks at length about the origin of the word knitting and its historical meaning.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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Also cutting in on the knitting is the summer semester, which started last week for me.
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Also cutting in on the knitting is the summer semester, which started last week for me.
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Also cutting in on the knitting is the summer semester, which started last week for me.
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I've always been a loose woman ... uh, in knitting, that is.
April 2004 2004
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I've always been a loose woman ... uh, in knitting, that is.
Starting over 2004
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[2] When I’m around people who express an interest in knitting, I try very hard to do the exact opposite, to explain that all knitting is a variation on one simple step.
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