upknit

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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