Crossword clues for knitting
knitting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. 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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To join; to cause to grow together.
Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
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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.
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To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.
--Shak.
Knitting \Knit"ting\, n.
The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.
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Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
Knitting needle, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"knitted work," 1848, from present participle of knit (v.). Knitting-needle is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of the verb ''to knit''; the process of producing knitted material. 2 Material that has been, or is being knitted. vb. (present participle of knit English)
WordNet
n. a fabric made by knitting [syn: knitted fabric]
a basic knitting stitch [syn: knit stitch, plain, plain stitch]
needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine [syn: knitting, knitwork]
See knit
Wikipedia
Knitting is a method by which yarn is manipulated to create a textile or fabric.
Knitting creates multiple loops of yarn, called stitches, in a line or tube. Knitting has multiple active stitches on the needle at one time. Knitted fabric consists of a number of consecutive rows of interlocking loops. As each row progresses, a newly created loop is pulled through one or more loops from the prior row, placed on the gaining needle, and the loops from the prior row are then pulled off the other needle.
Knitting may be done by hand or by using a machine.
Different types of yarns (fibre type, texture, and twist), needle sizes, and stitch types may be used to achieve knitted fabrics with diverse properties (colour, texture, weight, heat retention, water resistance, and/or integrity).
Knitting is a 2008 Chinese film directed by Yin Lichuan. Yin's second film as director, Knitting is a romantic drama. The film was adapted by Yin from the short story "The Story of Li Ai and Haihai" by author Amei.
The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight on 21 May 2008.
Though the film's setting is never stated, Knitting was shot in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.
Knitting is a method by which yarn is turned into fabric.
Knit, knitted or knitting may also refer to:
- Hand knitting
- Knitted fabric
- Knitting Factory, record label
- Knitting (film)
- Tight Knit, album
- Bone healing
Usage examples of "knitting".
Just as she was serving them, lo and behold, over the threshold came their neighbor AH Aga with his stocking and knitting needles and with the green bag given him by Renio slung around his shoulders.
Then there was a small library of other books, including a medical lexicon published in London and an almanac beginning at the year 1731, the Holy Bible, ink, pens and writing paper, a box of watercolours and brushes, reams of fine-quality drawing paper, knitting needles and wool, a roll of soft tanned leather from which to make the uppers for footwear- the soles would be cut from buffalo rawhide.
Sumeko Karistovan, Chilares Arman and Famelle Juarde had been in the Knitting Circle with Reanne Corly.
She replaced the receiver, picked up her capacious knitting bag, gave her hat brim a final pat in front of the mirror, and swung the wooden shed door to without noticing Asey standing outside.
Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.
Theodore de Beze was anxious to introduce a taste for the arts, for literature, and for poesy into Geneva, and Calvin listened to his plans without knitting his thick gray eyebrows.
They sat down by the fire and took up their knitting while the bookseller ran out to see if the volume had by any chance returned to his shelves.
Foye, in her buxom cheeriness, was drawn to give some of it forth to the uncouth-looking, companionless girl, and not only began a chat with her, after the momentary stir in the street was over, and she had settled herself upon her stool, and leaning her back against a tree, set vigorously to work again at knitting a stout blue yarn stocking, but also treated Bubby and Baby to some bits of her sweet merchandise, and told them about the bears and the monkeys that had gone by, shut up in the gay, red-and-yellow-painted wagons.
One morning she came to me as I was in bed and brought me a pair of white stockings of her own knitting.
Practice is canceled because Chugger, the drummer, has to work late at his day job knitting baby booties.
I had learned the basics, but knitting for me was still a pitched battle with knotted thread and slippery needles, not the soothing, dreamy exercise that Jamie and Ian made of it, needles clicketing away in their big hands by the fire, comforting as the sound of crickets on the hearth.
Tish was knitting quietly and planning to give the money back to the town in the shape of a library, and Aggie was holding a cubeb cigarette to her nose.
This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters.
Because he was her bodyguard, he was never very far from her, accompanying her to knitting sessions and tea with her sisters and other mind-deadening activities, all the while trying to avert his eyes from her flawless face and figure.
And there he saw Mully, knitting as she rocked in the chair before the fire, with Sammywell reading aloud to her.