Meaning

noun a fabric made by knitting

noun a basic knitting stitch

noun needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine

originFrom Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

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