knits

1. A knitted garment.
2. A session of knitting.

1. To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.

   The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.

2. To join closely and firmly together.

   The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.

3. To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
4. To grow together.

   All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.

5. To combine from various elements.

   The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.

6. Of bones: to heal following a fracture.

   I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.

7. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
8. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

noun

Small particles of ore.