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Knitted

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.

    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 (Comus).

    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.

Wiktionary
knitted
  1. Made by knitting, or resembling in texture something made by knitting. v

  2. 1 (en-simple past of: knit) 2 (past participle of knit English)

WordNet
knit
  1. n. a fabric made by knitting [syn: knitted fabric]

  2. a basic knitting stitch [syn: knit stitch, plain, plain stitch]

  3. needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine [syn: knitting, knitwork]

  4. [also: knitting, knitted]

knitted

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

knit
  1. v. make (textiles) by knitting; "knit a scarf"

  2. tie or link together [syn: entwine]

  3. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple]

  4. [also: knitting, knitted]

knitted

See knit

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "knitted".

Delilah, poking through a pile of flesh-colored knitted vests, gave it as her opinion that her benefactress had dealt the odious Miss Choice-Pickerell a crushing blow.

Jewett had opened the front of her bouclé knitted dress-rather too warm for the weather-and was fanning her bosom.

Ursula spoke little, nor heeded much what the others said, and Ralph deemed that she was paler than of wont, and her brows were knitted as if she were somewhat anxious.

The fishwife gesticulated rapidly with her fleshy hands in their black knitted mitts, not forgetting to hold her little finger out at an elegant angle.

Myra, but her coat was pulled on, her knitted wool hat was flumped down over her ears, and she was hauled sideways out of the booth.

I was trying too hard, as if I had thought of nothing else except her visit the whole six days, so I wore an old Donegal tweed sports jacket, with one of the original Pringle pullovers underneath, brown moleskin trousers, a good leather belt, soft rust-coloured cotton shirt, a dark-green knitted tie, Argyle socks, and my second-best dark-brown Lobb brogues.

I cursed Tilly for beaming at us like a yenta delighted to have knitted together another happy couple.

On the desk-top beside it lay his knitted baby bootee and the copy of his birth certificate.

Navy with knitted comforts, but could ply her needles instead in an endless stream of matin6e jackets, bootees and bonnets for the child that was on the way.

She was wearing her knitted sweater coat, a gift from Mamo that kept out the chill at this time of year, and she braced herself before she pulled it off.

She slipped into her coat and covered her bare head with the blue hat Mamo had knitted two winters before, and she wrapped her scarf tightly around her neck.

Sheilagh Morraine had a sweet, true, ordinary little voice, wooden gestures and expressions, and an astounding 42-25-38 figure she garbed in show gowns that seemed knitted of wet cob webs.

Sheilagh Morraine had a sweet, true, ordinary little voice, wooden gestures and expressions, and an astounding 42-25-38 figure she garbed in show gowns that seemed knitted of wet cob-webs.

Men with knitted hats and curly moustaches bent low over their plates eating shreds of roasted soybean cut from the imitation shawarma that revolved on a spit in the window.

The greeting from behind the small, efficient desk was terse and to the point, accompanied by a knitted frown of eyebrows.