knit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make clothing or fabric by joining yarn into loops with needles.

   She likes to knit a scarf during the long winter evenings.

2. 2
   verb

   To join people or things closely together.

   The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.

3. 3
   verb

   (Of broken bones) to grow back together and heal.

   I'll go skiing again after my bones knit.

From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

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