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n. - Needlecraft created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine.

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Usage examples (6)
  • "knitwork," with tips, patterns, and a great variety of yarn.
  • Would the dragon unravel like knitwork if he did cut its line?
  • Its legs were formed of loops, its body of closely interlocked convolutions, and its tail was like knitwork.
  • I have ten and a half inches of more-or-less decent knitwork, more-or-less twenty-two stitches all the way up and down.
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