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handknit

handknit noun: any item knitted by hand.

Noun

handknit (plural handknits)

  1. Any item knitted by hand.
    • a range of colourful handknits for babies

Verb

handknit (third-person singular simple present handknits, present participle handknitting, simple past and past participle handknitted or handknit)

  1. (transitive) To knit by hand.
    • A former Rhodes Scholar married to another highly respected scientist (he wore sweaters she had handknit to the lab), he had already supplied the institute as well as Blizzard with some hGH.2009, Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove, Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height, New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN

Forms of handknit

Noun
pluralhandknits
alternative formhand-knit
alternative formhand knit
Verb
third-person singular presenthandknits
present participlehandknitting
past participlehandknitted
pasthandknitted
past participlehandknit
pasthandknit

Origin of handknit

From hand + knit.

Questions about handknit

What does handknit mean?
Handknit means any item knitted by hand.
What part of speech is handknit?
Handknit can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of handknit?
The plural of handknit is handknits.

Words near handknit in the dictionary

  1. handkerchiefless
  2. handkerchiefs
  3. handkerchieved
  4. handkerchieves
  5. Handkes
  6. handknit
  7. handknits
  8. handknitted
  9. handknitting
  10. handlable
  11. handlaid

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