KNITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knitted mean? 

• KNITTED (adjective)
  The adjective KNITTED has 1 sense:

1. made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving

  Familiarity information: KNITTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving

Context example:

a hand-knitted sweater

Similar:

unwoven (not woven)

 Context examples 

“What do you think of the other?” said I. For he was still reading it with knitted brows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And camp they did, till Buck’s ribs knitted and he was able to travel.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression, and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange, in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As to Holmes, I observed that he sat frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his hand when I mentioned it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she had finished her breakfast, my aunt very deliberately leaned back in her chair, knitted her brows, folded her arms, and contemplated me at her leisure, with such a fixedness of attention that I was quite overpowered by embarrassment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)