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What does "knit" mean?

Knit: When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.
  2. 3.To join; to cause to grow together. Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. Wiseman.
  3. 4.To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love. Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come , knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson.
  4. 5.To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. knits his brow and shows an angry eye. Shak.
  5. 6.To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
  6. 7.To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. "It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas." [Obs.] Holland.
  7. 8.Union knitting; texture. Shak.

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