interknit

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ knit.

Verb

interknit (third-person singular simple present interknits, present participle interknitting, simple past and past participle interknitted)

  1. To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.
    • 1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 37, lines 559–562
      Also that I might rear as fits my house
      My children, and, giving brothers to thy sons,
      Bind them in one, and having interknit
      My family, live on in happy case.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 121:
      "You know how close I feel to you. Interknitted. Brother and brother."