knitted

3 definitions found

knitted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Knit \Knit\ (n[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knit or Knitted;
     p. pr. & vb. n. Knitting.] [OE. knitten, knutten, As.
     cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to Icel. kn[=y]ta, Sw. knyta,
     Dan. knytte. See Knot.]
     1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as
        cord; to fasten by tying.
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              A great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x.
                                                    11.
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              When your head did but ache,
              I knit my handkercher about your brows. --Shak.
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     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.
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     3. To join; to cause to grow together.
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              Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are
              under a discharge.                    --Wiseman.
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     4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit
        together in love.
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              Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. --Shak.
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              Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
              In a light fantastic round.           --Milton
                                                    (Comus).
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              A link among the days, toknit
              The generations each to each.         --Tennyson.
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     5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
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              He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. --Shak.
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knitted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  knitted
      adj 1: made by intertwining threads in a series of connected
             loops rather than by weaving; "knitted garments"; "a
             hand-knitted sweater"

knitted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "knitted":
     clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed,
     consolidated, constricted, contracted, corrugate, corrugated,
     cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled,
     furrowed, knotted, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, puckery,
     pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rippled, rucked, rugged, rugose,
     rugous, rumpled, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated,
     wasp-waisted, wrinkled, wrinkly