interknit

interknit

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ knit.

Verb

interknit (third-person singular simple present interknits, present participle interknitting, simple past and past participle interknitted)

1. To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.
   • 1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 37, lines 559–562

     Also that I might rear as fits my house
     My children, and, giving brothers to thy sons,
     Bind them in one, and having interknit
     My family, live on in happy case.

   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 121:

     "You know how close I feel to you. Interknitted. Brother and brother."

Related terms

• knit