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English
Etymology
From re- + knit.
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reknit (third-person singular simple present reknits, present participle reknitting, simple past and past participle reknit or reknitted)
- To knit again.
1903, George Moore, “Home Sickness”, in The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 158:It was at once strange and familiar to see the chickens in the kitchen; and, wishing to re-knit himself to the old habits, he begged of Mrs. Scully not to drive them out, saying he did not mind them.
1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, columns 1–2:Bright-beady of eye, bony of cheek and jaw, scarred, toughened, broken and reknit, indestructible, grisly, gladiatorial as a hornet, he was a type neither new nor unfamiliar.
2009 January 24, Gord Stimmell, “Fuzion frenzy uncorked”, in Toronto Star:“At home, I found the wine is often bottle shocked and better to drink the next day after opening.” Or kept in the cellar for a month or two to let it settle and reknit.
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