handknit

See also: hand knit and hand-knit

English

Alternative forms

hand-knit, hand knit

Etymology

From hand +‎ knit.

Noun

handknit (plural handknits)

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)

To knit by hand.
- 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:
  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.

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