upknit
English edit
Verb edit
upknit (third-person singular simple present upknits, present participle upknitting, simple past and past participle upknitted)
- (transitive, archaic) To knit together; to unite.
- 1848, Elihu Burritt, Bond of Brotherhood, page 69:
- 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 […]
- 1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs, page 198:
- Repose her restless spirit needs to upknit
Her ravelled strength […]