handknit

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noun

Any item knitted by hand.

“a range of colourful handknits for babies”

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Meanings

nounhandknit (plural handknits)

plural handknits · alternative hand-knit · alternative hand knit

  1. Any item knitted by hand.

    a range of colourful handknits for babies

verbhandknit (third-person singular simple present handknits, present participle handknitting, simple past and past participle handknitted or handknit)

present singular third person handknits · participle present handknitting · participle past handknitted · past handknitted · alternative hand-knit · alternative hand knit

  1. transitiveTo knit by hand.

    A former Rhodes Scholar married to another highly respected scientist (he wore sweaters she had handknit to the lab), he had already supplied the institute as well as Blizzard with some hGH.

    2009, Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove, Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height, New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN

Origin

From hand + knit.

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APA

handknit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handknit

MLA

“handknit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handknit. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “handknit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handknit.

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