upknit

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English

Verb

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

  1. (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 […]
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