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One who knits or works up yarn or thread into a looped texture, for hosiery, etc.
= knitter, n. 2 (In form, feminine.)
One who plaits. Also Scottish, one who knits.
A woman who knits; applied spec. to women who, during the French Revolution, sat and knitted at meetings of the Convention or at guillotinings. Also…