knit

To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.ambitransitive

• to knit a stocking
• The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.

To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.ambitransitive

• Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.

To join closely and firmly together.figurativelytransitive

• The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.

To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.intransitive

To grow together.intransitive

• All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.

To combine from various elements.transitive

• The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.

To heal following a fracture.intransitive

• I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.

To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.transitive

• When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows,
• [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]

To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.transitive

• But meet him now, and be it in the Morne, / When euery one will giue the time of day, / He knits his Brow and ſhewes an angry Eye, / And paſſeth by with ſtiffe vnbowed Knee, / Diſdaining dutie that to vs belongs.

A knitted garment.

• There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woolle

A session of knitting.

• It's always time for a bit of a knit.