Definition of Double knit

1. Noun. A knit fabric similar to jersey that is made with two sets of needles producing a double thickness joined by interlocking stitches.

Generic synonyms: Knit

Definition of Double knit

1. Noun. A knitted fabric consisting of a double thickness, made on a machine with two sets of needles ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Knit

double helices
double helix
double helixes
double hemiplegia
double immunodiffusion
double indemnity
double inlet atrioventricular connections
double intussusception
double jeopardy
double jump
double jumped
double jumping
double jumps
double kiss
double kisses
double knit
double layer
double leg circle
double life
double lock standing seam
double loop hernia
double magnum
double magnums
double meaning
double membrane
double minute
double minute chromosomes
double modal
double modals

Literary usage of Double knit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Journal of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, and Repertory of by William Newton (1844)
"They claim, Firstly,—the mode of making elastic fabrics, by introducing strands of India-rubber, transversely, into the description of double knit fabrics ..."

2. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States: Annotated for Statistical ...edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun (2006)
"... Of yarns of different colors J 10% 80 Other (222) kg Of double knit or interlock construction: 20 Of nylon (222) J kg 40 Of polyester (222) kg 60 Other ..."

3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1852)
"... and double knit a piece of rather more than half an inch in length, taking one stitch from one needle, and one from the other throughout each row. ..."

4. The Girl's Own Book. by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1835)
"This knitting the instep-needle twice, where you knit the others once, will produce a hole each time; but narrowing the last double-knit stitch with one ..."

5. The Little Girl's Own Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child, Eliza Leslie (1847)
"This knitting tho instep-needle twice, where you knit the others once, will produce a hole each time; but narrowing the last double- knit stitch with one ..."

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