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 […]

Anagrams

• knit up