knit /nɪt/ BrE AmE verb ( present participle knitting ) [intransitive and transitive]
[ Language: Old English ; Origin: cnyttan ]
1 . ( past tense and past participle knitted ) to make clothing out of wool, using two ↑ knitting needle s ⇨ crochet :
My grandmother taught me how to knit.
She’s knitting a sweater.
knit somebody something
Emily knitted him some socks.
2 . ( past tense and past participle knitted ) to use a ↑ plain (=basic) knitting stitch:
Knit one, purl one.
3 . ( past tense and past participle knit ) to join people, things, or ideas more closely together, or to be joined closely together
knit together
In a good report, individual sentences knit together in a clear way that readers can follow.
closely/tightly etc knit (=with all the members having close relationships)
a closely knit community
Harold is part of a tightly knit team.
4 . ( past tense and past participle knit ) a bone that knits after being broken grows into one piece again
knit together
The pin holds the bones in place while they knit together.
5 . knit your brows to show you are worried, thinking hard etc by moving your ↑ eyebrow s together
—knitter noun [countable]
⇨ ↑ close-knit , ↑ tight-knit