knitch

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English knicche (“bundle (of brush, weeds), bunch, sheaf”), from Old English ġecnyċċe (“bond”), deverbative of ġecnyċċan, cnyċċan (“to tie, bind together, connect”), from Proto-Germanic *knukkijaną; akin to Lithuanian gniáužti (“to close one’s hand”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

knitch (plural knitches)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A small bundle.
    a knitch of wheat

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 298.

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