misknit

misknit

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ knit

Verb

misknit (third-person singular simple present misknits, present participle misknitting, simple past and past participle misknit or misknitted)

1. To knit incorrectly; to make an error in one's knitting.
   • 1898, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, page 20:

     There are a great many people who seem to think that religion means not doing wrong. As if a knitting machine would be considered good that never knit any stockings, because it never misknit!

   • 1973 ·, Dennis Rawlins, Peary at the North Pole: Fact Or Fiction?, page 54:

     For a man now nearly forgotten except as an evil misknit in the Great Tapestry of the Hero's life, General Adolphus W. Greely's 91 years of life were filled with such variety and intensity of experience as few persons will ever match.

   • 2003, How it Works: Science and Technology - Volume 8, page 1091:

     Alternatively, needles may misknit but still take the new yarn, a process called tucking.

   • 2013, Phyllis G. Tortora, ‎Ingrid Johnson, The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, page 239:

     The face yarn is misknitted purposely to allow other yarns to appear on the right side of the fabric.

   • 2014, Matt Parker, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension:

     My mother is quite the pedant and so she was disappointed to learn she had misknit. She has unravelled bigger things to fix smaller mistakes before.

Adjective

misknit (comparative more misknit, superlative most misknit)

1. Improperly fused or joined together.
   • 1900, Bernarr MacFadden, Fasting - hydrotherapy - exercise, page 43:

     Misknit bones had made his crooked legs a trifle crookeder, but he could run again and attest the vigor of his lungs by a lusty bark.

2. Improperly knitted.
   • 1918, The Judge - Volume 74:

     Private Wyer, who was diligently cleaning his shrapnel barrel with a misknit helmet, looked up warningly.