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reknit en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + knit.

Meanings

1. To knit again.
   • 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, George Moore, “Home Sickness”, in The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 158:
   • “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. 2009 January 24, Gord Stimmell, “Fuzion frenzy uncorked”, in Toronto Star:
   • 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. 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:

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