A great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x.
11.
When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher
about your brows. --Shak.
2. To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn
or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of
needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit
stockings.
3. To join; to cause to grow together.
Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are
under a discharge. --Wiseman.
4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit
together in love.
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. --Shak.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light
fantastic round. --Milton.
A link among the days, toknit The generations each
to each. --Tennyson.
5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. --Shak.
2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
{Knitting machine}, one of a number of contrivances for
mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
{Knitting ?eedle}, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with
rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric,
as in stockings.
{Knitting sheath}, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in
knitting.