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KNITTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creating knitted wear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("knitting" is a kind of...):
handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)
Derivation:
knit (make (textiles) by knitting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
Synonyms:
knit; knitting; knitwork
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("knitting" is a kind of...):
needlecraft; needlework (a creation created or assembled by needle and thread)
Domain member category:
bind off; tie up (finish the last row)
Derivation:
knit (make (textiles) by knitting)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb knit
Context examples:
Next day the knitting and watching began again, and lasted all day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The candle, whose ray had been my beacon, burnt on the table; and by its light an elderly woman, somewhat rough-looking, but scrupulously clean, like all about her, was knitting a stocking.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mrs. and Miss Bates occupied the drawing-room floor; and there, in the very moderate-sized apartment, which was every thing to them, the visitors were most cordially and even gratefully welcomed; the quiet neat old lady, who with her knitting was seated in the warmest corner, wanting even to give up her place to Miss Woodhouse, and her more active, talking daughter, almost ready to overpower them with care and kindness, thanks for their visit, solicitude for their shoes, anxious inquiries after Mr. Woodhouse's health, cheerful communications about her mother's, and sweet-cake from the beaufet—“Mrs. Cole had just been there, just called in for ten minutes, and had been so good as to sit an hour with them, and she had taken a piece of cake and been so kind as to say she liked it very much; and, therefore, she hoped Miss Woodhouse and Miss Smith would do them the favour to eat a piece too.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In my memories of those days she is clad always in some purple shimmering stuff, with a white kerchief round her long white neck, and I see her fingers turning and darting as she works at her knitting.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Here comes Ned Moffat. What does he want?" said Laurie, knitting his black brows as if he did not regard his young host in the light of a pleasant addition to the party.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One day, about the time of our Cliffe Royal adventure, I was seated in the cottage looking round at the curios which my father had fastened on to the walls, and wishing, like the lazy lad that I was, that Mr. Lilly had died before ever he wrote his Latin grammar, when my mother, who was sitting knitting in the window, gave a little cry of surprise.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock, this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very wretched and miserable condition.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
