Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lightweight knit fabric, often of nylon, used especially for underwear.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fabric made of yarn or woolen thread, knitted by hand; also, a similar material made by machines in which the hand-knitting is imitated. Compare jersey.
  • noun A cloth used for women's garments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A soft, knit fabric.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a knitted fabric or one resembling knitting

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from tricoter, to knit, from Old French, to beat, run, from tricote, short thick stick, diminutive of estrique, trique, stick for leveling measures of grain, from estriquier, to strike off, of Germanic origin; see streig- in Indo-European roots.]

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From the French verb tricoter, "to knit"

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