knitting (root: knit)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: knit=ting

CIDE DICTIONARY

knitting, n. 

•  The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.  [1913 Webster]
•  Union formed by knitting, as of bones.  [1913 Webster]

Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting needle, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

knitting, n.
1 a garment etc. in the process of being knitted.
2 a the act of knitting. b an instance of this.

Idiom

knitting-machine a machine used for mechanically knitting garments etc. knitting-needle a thin pointed rod of steel, wood, plastic, etc., used esp. in pairs for knitting.

THESAURUS

knitting

abbreviation, applique, astriction, astringency, basting, binding, bottleneck, braiding, buttonholing, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crochet, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, embroidery, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, hourglass, hourglass figure, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, isthmus, lacing, macrame, narrow place, narrowing, neck, needlepoint, netting, petit point, plaiting, puckering, pursing, quilting, reduction, ribbing, shortening, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, tatting, texture, tissue, twining, twisting, warp and woof, warpage, wasp waist, weave, weaving, web, weftage, wreathing, wrinkling