Usually means: Create fabric using interlocking loops.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word knit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. knit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knit: Merriam-Webster
  3. knit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knit, knit: Wordnik
  8. knit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knit: Wiktionary
  10. knit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. knit: Dictionary.com
  14. knit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. KNIT (AM), KNIT, Knit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knit: Rhymezone
  20. knit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. knit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. knit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. knit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. knit: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Knit: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. knit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. KNIT: Acronym Finder
  2. knit: Idioms
  3. knit: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kniting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) 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.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
verb:  (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow together.
verb:  (transitive) To combine from various elements.
verb:  (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
verb:  (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
verb:  (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
noun:  A knitted garment.
noun:  A session of knitting.

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