upknit

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verb

To knit together; to unite.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbupknit (third-person singular simple present upknits, present participle upknitting, simple past and past participle upknitted)

present singular third person upknits · participle present upknitting · participle past upknitted · past upknitted

  1. archaictransitiveTo knit together; to unite.

    Repose her restless spirit needs to upknit Her ravelled strength […]

    1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs, page 198
    1 more example

    Commerce, the cardinal condition and prerogative of peace, would work on with its myriads of interweaving shuttles, overwebbing and upknitting the divisions, meshing the sinews, and quenching the animus of war […]

    1848, Elihu Burritt, Bond of Brotherhood, page 69
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