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Knitting   /nˈɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Knitting

noun
1.
Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine.  Synonyms: knit, knitwork.
2.
Creating knitted wear.


Knit

verb
(past & past part. knit or knitted; pres. part. knitting)
1.
Make (textiles) by knitting.
2.
Tie or link together.  Synonym: entwine.
3.
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.  Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple.



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"Knitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... down her knitting in her lap, "I can get no further at this present than one line of Saint John: 'He Himself knew what He would do.' I do not know what He will do. It may be, as it then was, something that none of all His disciples can guess. One step at a time is all He allows us to see, ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... forehead, and a double vertical wrinkle settled over her nose. The wise woman saw it, for all her business was with Agnes though she little knew it, and, rising, went and offered the cup to the child, where she sat with her knitting in a corner. Agnes looked at it, did not want it, was inclined to refuse it from a beggar, but thinking it would show her consequence to assert her rights, took it and drank it up. For whoever is possessed by a devil, ...
— A Double Story • George MacDonald
... makers of anniversary books and calendars. While no mention was made of my having been born on Sept. 15, considerable space was given to recording the fact that on that date in 1840 a patent for a knitting machine was issued to the inventor, who was none other than Isaac Wixan ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... If he came to me do you not know that I should throw myself into his arms and be the happiest woman in the world without a word spoken?" The conversation was not then carried further, but Mrs. Holt continued to shake her head as she sate at her knitting. In her estimation no husband could have behaved worse than had her son-in-law. And she was of opinion that he should be punished for his misconduct before things could be ...
— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope
... would like Uncle Nathan, and if you could pay a visit to his farm he would not drive you off as Mr. Judson did. My grandma and aunt live with my uncle. Grandma is a very old woman, but she looks happy and contented as she sits day after day in her large arm-chair, dividing her time between her knitting work and reading in the large-print Bible which always lies close to her hand; sometimes she says it tries her eyes to read, and then I wish you could see how pleased she seems when I ...
— Walter Harland - Or, Memories of the Past • Harriet S. Caswell


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