Definitions for knittings

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knittings knit·ting

Spelling: [nit-ing]

IPA: /ˈnɪt ɪŋ/

Knittings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in knittings (giiknnstt).

Definitions for knittings

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that knits.
2. the act of forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
3. knitted work.
4. fabric produced by knitting.
5. a knitted garment.
6. a style or type of knitting.
7. the basic stitch in knitting, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn forward through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare purl1 (def 3).

Idioms

1. stick / tend to one's knitting, to mind one's own business: to devote oneself to one's assignments or responsibilities:

verb (used with object)

1. to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
2. to join closely and firmly, as members or parts (often followed by together):
3. to contract into folds or wrinkles:
4. to form or create from diverse sources or elements:

verb (used without object)

1. to become closely and firmly joined together; grow together, as broken bones do.
2. to contract into folds or wrinkles, as the brow.
3. to become closely and intimately united.

Origin of knittings

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at knit, -ing¹

Examples for knittings

What wonder that days became as years in knitting them together!

Fanning, ever the old soul, returned the gestures by knitting the veteran actors scarves.

I had a lot of knitted caps courtesy of the hospital volunteers and even my own knitting.

More than secular nationalist movements or industrial interests or mental illness or knitting groups?

She could have auditioned to be the tavern wench or a faerie; instead, she signed on as a merchant, knitting chain-mail bikinis.

Suddenly she came to her feet, and tossed her knitting on the bed.

Sure, they have the knitting around the ankles and the waistbands.

For that purpose it is better than an arm-chair and a pipe, or a piece of knitting.

Her knitting was before her, but she had laid it down to pick her teeth with a toothpick.

The fingers of the knitting women were vicious, with the experience that they could tear.