knitted

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billowy
bonded
breathable
brushed
clingy
floaty
fluted
gauzy
handknit
handknitted
nubby
quilting
ribby
ruched
shag
water-repellent
waterproof
weatherproof
woollen
woolly

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knit | American Dictionary

knit
verb[ I/T ]
us/nɪt/present participleknitting | past tense and past participleknitted or knit

knitverb[I/T] (MAKE CLOTHES)

to make cloth or clothing by connecting yarn (= fiber threads) into rows with two long needles, or to do this with a machine:
[ T ]She’s knitting a scarf for her daughter.

knitverb[I/T] (JOIN)

to join together:
[ I ]She’s got a break in this bone, but the ends of the bones will knit without the need for surgery.

Examples of knit

knit
Such employments were corduroy finishing, knitting and laundering and were assigned to women living nearby to be undertaken at home.
He argues that judges have a certain kind of shared intention that knits together their activities into a shared action.
The early lace machines were in fact developed from knitting machines, and drew on local reserves of capital, labour and technical knowledge.
This is a significant problem for knitwear designers without a solid grounding in the technicalities of knitting.!
Cotton and silk knits usually maintained an export share of more than 50%, but other goods were also important.
Here is a sound stream that is almost smooth; one might describe it as being knitted from the flashes of a broken jar.
A different yarn or a small change to the design can make a garment impossible or much more time-consuming to knit.
They are more likely to receive help from the other member of the dyad than people who have loose knit relationships.
This perspective hypothesis allows us to understand the neolithic burst in creativity as a cultural advance in methods for knitting together thoughts.
The introduction attempts to knit everything together, with some success.
The number of size classes ranged from 5 (knitting mills; laboratory apparatus and analytical optical) to 12 (plastic products, misc.) (table 1).
Whose voices were heard and whose voices were not in knitting together these accounts is of the utmost significance.
The random links do not have to be strong; the mere existence of these links serves a miraculous function of linking up closely knit communities.
The archbishop accused them of being knit together in a bond which he was determined to break.
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