knit

Plural: knits

Noun

a fabric made by knitting
a basic knitting stitch
needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
A knitted garment.
A session of knitting.

Verb

Verb Forms: knitted, knitting, knits

To make fabric by interlocking loops of yarn with needles.
make (textiles) by knitting
- "knit a scarf"
tie or link together
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
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 create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
To join closely and firmly together.
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
To grow together.
To combine from various elements.
To heal following a fracture.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

Examples

All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
She tried to knit together her disparate letters into a coherent, high-scoring word.
Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
to knit a stocking

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

cockle, crumple, entwine, knit stitch, knitting, knitwork, plain, plain stitch, pucker, rumple

Scrabble Score: 8

knit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
knit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
knit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

knit: valid Words With Friends Word